What would you name a Uranus probe? The internet's answers are about what you'd think

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Thriller films, Antarctic explorers and female science pioneers featured in an informal naming contest seeking a moniker for a proposed Uranus spacecraft mission.

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I'm pleased to say that none of those answers are about what I'd think would come from the internet. The name, Uranus, is the bane of all astronomy. It's discoverer (Herschel) named it George (Georgium Sidus), but the French didn't like it, and King George was hardly that popular in the States.