Generate Planet names

[matthewmayer]

Clear and concise description of the problem

As a developer using faker i want to generate planet names.

• My original usecase was as a placeholder location when I want to make it obvious that a location is fake (e.g. set location of a planned event on a events website to "Neptune")
• Is a common set of placeholder names e.g. when thematically naming classes in a school https://www.kingsweston.bristol.sch.uk/Venus-Class/
• Has other scientific use-cases

Suggested solution

Implement faker.science.planet() with the following data in English

[
    "Mercury",
    "Venus",
    "Earth",
    "Mars",
    "Jupiter",
    "Saturn",
    "Uranus",
    "Neptune"
]

Alternative

faker.location.planet()?

Additional context

No response

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[ST-DDT]

Do you want exactly those well known planet names or any planet names?

[Shinigami92]

Do you want exactly those well known planet names or any planet names?

This was exactly my first thought. Even if we dont want scientific planets now, we might want to consider a method name that does not get in conflict if we want to generate names like KMT-2021-BLG-1150L b

[matthewmayer]

Just the major planets

[matthewmayer]

Pluto is not a planet 😀

[matthewmayer]

For comparison Faker-Ruby has a few space methods. Their "planet" method is "planet (in our solar System)"
https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker/blob/main/doc/default/space.md

[ST-DDT]

Currently, I think space is the best match, followed by location and then science.
From science.planet I would except the numbered planet notation.

[xDivisionByZerox]

Currently, I think space is the best match, followed by location and then science.
From science.planet I would except the numbered planet notation.

I understand your reasoning, but I'm not a big fan of introducing new modules at the current moment. We still have some places where we are not sure whether a function would be better located in module X or Y. Adding more modules makes this problem potentially worse until we have clear definitions about the "Module" term, or we introduce an easy way to reference aliases.

That being said, I would not expect planet to be located under the LocationModule as this has more of an "on earth locations"-vibe to me.
Science sounds reasonable to me. But again, @ST-DDT made a good point with the "numbered planet notations".

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Another thing I want to point out is the method faker.person.zodiacSign. While not directly related, they could end out being on the same meta level. I just want this to be considered. Not putting "planet" into the PersonModule, but the fact of potential relation in general.

[ST-DDT]

Nothing we have to decide now, lets wait on more input/upvotes.