Contest: Name that planet!

So, we found a planet.By we, I mean Princeton and...the University of Hawaii, the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo.This new planet, which is only about 300 trillion miles from Earth, is about 10 to 40 times as massive as Jupiter. It also has a terrible name, GJ 758 B.

"It's a groundbreaking find because one of the current goals of astronomy is to directly detect planet-like objects around stars like our sun," said Michael McElwain, a postdoctoral research fellow in Princeton's Department of Astrophysical Sciences who was part of the team that made the discovery.

It's also sort of not, because scientists have found more than 400 "planet-like objects" since 1992. Like that "Earth-sized" one eight months ago.But it also sort of is, because almost none of them have been seen directly! And of the others that have been seen through a telescope, "most have been on larger orbits than the distance between GJ 758 B and its star, or around stars with temperatures far above the average temperature of GJ 758 or our sun." Which, naturally, means that GJ 758 B is kind of a big deal! Which means this new telescope that we have is really cool! OK, Princeton press release. We trust you. This planet is something special.But we think a special planet deserves a better name than GJ 758 B.In our comments, name that planet! Winners will be announced next Friday, and our favorite gets naming rights (or something comparable, like a shout-out on the Ink). I'm sure we can work something out with whoever it is at Princeton that's in charge of this kind of thing (i.e. planet-naming) and it will be totally legitimate. Promise.