Naming projects after celestial bodies is a long tradition in engineering — memorable, neutral, and naturally sequential. This generator pulls from a curated list of real planets, moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, and exoplanets, attaching a one-line fact to each so you can pick a name whose character fits the work.
How it works
The tool holds a fixed list of genuine astronomical objects, each tagged by type (planet, moon, dwarf planet, asteroid, or exoplanet) and paired with a short fact. When you generate, it filters to your chosen type, shuffles the pool with an unbiased Fisher–Yates pass, and returns your requested count. Within any single batch the codenames are unique, so you will not see the same body twice.
Tips and notes
- Match the body to the project: Jupiter suits a flagship platform, Mercury a fast small fix, and Europa a project that hides depth beneath a simple surface.
- Moons form natural sub-series — group related workstreams under the Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto).
- Keep a retired-codenames list so a long-running scheme never reuses a name and confuses your release history.