It’s a great word, it fits the astronomy theme, its meaning has EA significance, a synonym is “alignment,” and DC-NYC-Boston-Oxford-London lie on a single great circle!!
But given that “petrichor” was rejected by someone in the ‘naming committee’ for being too hard to pronounce-from-reading, I’m not sure syzygy is going to fair much better :p
Hmm, the pronunciation of syzygy is intuitive to me (unlike petrichor with its hard i). But yes, this may be a downside. On the other hand, syzygy is so good… the great-circle thing is an amazing coincidence, and how else can you say alignment with no vowels :D
Syzygy.
It’s a great word, it fits the astronomy theme, its meaning has EA significance, a synonym is “alignment,” and DC-NYC-Boston-Oxford-London lie on a single great circle!!
I think this is a great suggestion.
But given that “petrichor” was rejected by someone in the ‘naming committee’ for being too hard to pronounce-from-reading, I’m not sure syzygy is going to fair much better :p
Hmm, the pronunciation of syzygy is intuitive to me (unlike petrichor with its hard i). But yes, this may be a downside. On the other hand, syzygy is so good… the great-circle thing is an amazing coincidence, and how else can you say alignment with no vowels :D