Carl Sagan noted that the names chosen were extraordinarily obscure (a fact that Tobias Owen, chair of the Task Group, admitted was intentional in a response to Sagan) and suggested his own names in 1976; these preserved some of the names from the 1955 proposal.
卡爾·薩根注意到這些選出來的名字都非常晦澀 （一個事實是任務組的主席托拜厄斯·歐文（英语：Tobias_Owen,_Sr）也認同薩根的回應），並且在1976年提出自己的命名；其中保留了一些1955年提案中的名稱。