In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
...but the bad example of Uranus -- which had three
different names before everyone settled on one...

I know about Uranus and Herschel; what was number three?

Herschel originally named it "Georgium Sidus", i.e. George's Star, after
the then king of England. That did not go over very well elsewhere in
Europe.
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