Want to name a planet?

There are 15 stars and 32 exoplanets withing 20 planetary systems that need to be named, and submitted proposals range from pop culture references to heroes of Japanese mythology to parts of fish anatomy.

The NameExoWorlds contest, organized by the IAU, is now entering its historic final stage.

IAU is authority responsible for assigning official names to celestial bodies and traditionally exoplanets and stars have been named after their founders, but this is for the first time in centuries that the public will be able to decide on the names of twenty stars with known exoplanets in orbit around them.

Naming a planet used to be an honour reserved for the astronomer who discovered it, but these days, we’re finding too many to keep up.

You can’t give a planet any random name, because there are no write-in votes.

All names come with logic explanations from the organizations and groups that submitted them, there’s a whole range of creatives names. No registration is required to participate, though each device (computer or smartphone) can only vote once for each of the 20 systems. For example, for the star Pollux (beta Geminorum), the exoplanet Pollux-b is up for naming. Just go here and click on the name that tickle’s your fancy. You can also name stars through the voting process. To let them know what is going around their mind matters.

The voting will run through October 31.

According to reports, a famous Scottish Munro could soon represent a planet following it has been selected in an global astronomical competition for finding a name for a distant planet.

The IAU expects to make an announcement on the results of the vote in mid-November.