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Proper names of planetary systems often follow common themes – for example, the planets of the star Copernicus are named after European astronomers. Proper names for planets outside of the Solar System – known as exoplanets – are chosen by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) through public naming contests known as NameExoWorlds.
Most extrasolar planets in fiction are similar to Earth—referred to in the Star Trek franchise as Class M planets—and serve only as settings for the narrative. [1] [2] One reason for this, writes Stephen L. Gillett [Wikidata] in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, is to enable satire. [3]
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Temerant: Patrick Rothfuss: The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension".
Red Dwarf – The titular spaceship from the BBC sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf [74] Retribution – the only operational carrier after an SDF attack in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. SDF-1 Macross – a massive interstellar transforming spacecraft from the anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its American adaptation, Robotech [75]
Barbie, the world's most popular doll, was released with a variant space suit costume in the 1960s. Billy Blastoff , an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s. The Major Matt Mason line of toys from 1968, including Major Mason himself, Lt. Jeff Long, Sgt. Storm, and Doug Davis.