{"id":5599,"date":"2019-08-04T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2019-08-04T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T12:31:16","slug":"press-release-brunei-gets-to-name-a-planet-and-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2019\/08\/press-release-brunei-gets-to-name-a-planet-and-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Brunei gets to name a planet and a star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190801_NASA_ExoplanetHD179949b-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190801_NASA_ExoplanetHD179949b-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190801_NASA_ExoplanetHD179949b-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190801_NASA_ExoplanetHD179949b-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190801_NASA_ExoplanetHD179949b.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Above:<\/strong> An exoplanet HD 179949b is a gas giant planet, a planetary system discovered in 2000 is assigned by the International Astronomical Union to be given a proper name by Brunei Darussalam (Source: <em>International Astronomical Union<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan<\/strong> \u2013 People of Brunei will have the\nopportunity to name a selected exoplanet and its host star to commemorate the\n100th-anniversary celebration of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently there are a total of\nmore than 4,000 confirmed planets that orbit stars outside the solar system\nknown as exoplanets. Most of these exoplanets have no proper names.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NameExoWorlds offers the opportunity for all countries\nin the world including Brunei Darussalam to give a name to one exoplanet and\nits hosting star. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On August 2, 2019, Brunei Darussalam was assigned with\na planetary system by IAU to be given appropriate names of a giant gaseous\nplanet (HD 179949b) and its star HD 179949 located in the constellation of Sagittarius.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, NameExoWorlds for Brunei\nDarussalam is organised by the Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam as the\nIAU National Outreach Coordinator to run this campaign from August 2019, with the\nsupport from relevant agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program was launched on August 4 via online by Haji\nMahadi bin Haji Md Tahir, President of the Astronomical Society of Brunei\nDarussalam (PABD) which was declared in a special announcement on the society\u2019s\nFacebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haji Mahadi said \u201cThis global initiative will provide\nthe opportunity for Bruneians to name the star and the planet, where the\nselected name suggestions will be memorialized for our future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proposed names can be submitted to the committee from August\n10 until October 10, 2019 through online form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruneiastronomy.org\/NameExoWorlds\">www.bruneiastronomy.org\/NameExoWorlds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Names will be chosen by public online voting carried out in this country. The popular names and after final validation by the Organising Committee, the global results will be announced in December 2019. The chosen names will be recognized by IAU as official names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PressRelease-NameExoWorldBN_english.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PressRelease-NameExoWorldBN_english<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PressRelease-NameExoWorldBN_english.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SiaranAkhbar-NameExoWorldBN_Malay.pdf\">SiaranAkhbar-NameExoWorldBN_Malay<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SiaranAkhbar-NameExoWorldBN_Malay.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan \u2013 People of Brunei will have the opportunity to name a selected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,50],"tags":[30,282,279,283,280,281],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pabd","category-press-release","tag-brunei","tag-exoplanet","tag-nameexoworlds","tag-noc","tag-planet","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}