How did the solar system and all the planets get their names?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Milky Way! Neptune! Uranus! Halley’s Comet! There are so many cool features in our solar system – but how did they get their names? We asked space scientist and communicator Maggie Aderin-Pocock to help us find the answer.

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0:35.2	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:43.1	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Pluto, the most popular planet in the solar system.
0:50.7	Um.
0:52.8	Okay. I'm not big enough to be a full-fledged planet.
0:56.4	I'm actually smaller than the Earth's moon.
0:59.3	But even though some people will say, oh, here comes Pluto, that little baby dwarf planet.
1:07.4	I don't let it get me down.
1:09.3	I'm always putting myself out there to expand my professional orbit.
1:13.2	Today, I'm at the intergalactic convening of extraterrestrial emissaries.
1:18.0	I see for short.
1:19.6	Oh, time to grab a name tag.
1:25.4	Excuse me, may I sit next to you two?
1:28.8	Wow, Define us and Sofar.
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