GPT-6 argues the newly spotted Planet 9 candidate should be named Margaret after Hamilton
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-08
After the first "official pictures" of a Planet 9 candidate circulated, IgorCarron had GPT-6 evaluate naming the planet after Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo's flight-software teams.
GPT-6's reasoning: "Margaret" derives from the Greek for "pearl," fitting a precious world hidden in the outer solar system's darkness; and since the candidate emerged from comparing infrared surveys taken 23 years apart, honoring a pioneer of computation — whose software helped the lunar landing survive computer overload alarms — would be apt.
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