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You missed the part where literally nobody else will look to those registries to see what random people named them.
Doesn’t NASA do it? I dunno. I always thought it was kind of neat, but ultimately pointless.
Nope. The names are entirely unofficial. No one uses them.
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
I've got a 50,000 dollar picture of your nephew