The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the authority responsible for assigning official names to celestial bodies. While celebrating its first 100 years of fostering international collaboration (IAU100), the IAU wishes to contribute to the fraternity of all people with a significant token of global identity. Following the first NameExoWorlds competition, which named 19 "ExoWorlds" in 2015, the IAU, within the framework of the IAU100 NameExoWorlds project, offered every country the chance to name one planetary system, comprising an exoplanet and its host star. Each country’s designated star is visible from that country, and sufficiently bright to be observed through small telescopes.
IAU encouraged all people of Earth to consider themselves “Citizens of the Cosmos”, and set aside borders, wars, and cultural differences for a universal, peaceful view of humanity as just one race, possibly among many cosmic neighbours in the Universe.
From Pakistan, Mr. Ahmed Noor-e-Alam and Ms. Wajeeha Shakeel have named the star HD 99109 and it's planet HD99109b as 'Shama' and 'Pervana'. http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/pakistan
