Numbered planets: what method?

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For example, in the American South anyone speaking about Birmingham is almost certainly talking about the city in Alabama not the one in England.

You’ve just solved a Kelvinverse conundrum as well. Complaints about Delta Vega not being the same as the one in Where No Man… could be explained in the same manner. In NH, where I grew up, there are towns named Milan, Bethlehem, Berlin, Plymouth, Franconia, Manchester…and I can attest with certainty they don’t remotely resemble their more famous namesakes.