The Name Game S ome middle school kids in Delray Beach, Florida, recently questioned why our solar system doesn t have its own name.
Stars have their own names.
Planets have their own names. Moons have their own names. Even George W. Bush has his own name, kind of. Surely there are as many solar systems in space as there are chopsticks in China. The students rightly figured it pretentious to call our solar system THE Solar System as though it were the one and only.