Vulcan?

[orcot]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070518_vulcan_planet.html

[orcot]

... do you think people chould start naming exo planets (even when their not yet discovered) our are names like Gliese 876 d (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet) still apropriate

[Janus58]

You know, when I first read the title of ths post, I thought it might be about the planet once thought to exist inside Mercury's orbit, and believed to be the cause of Mercury's precession.

[orcot]

rechearge (well wiki) indicates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28hypothetical_planet%29) that if there was a body larger then 60 km wide it would have been discovered by now but then again a good name is a good name and it's better then some of the other proposed names like xena. Imagen a millinea from now if people start colonizing a planet named Paris in the hilton system.