 In July 2014 the International Astronomical Union launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars . The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names . In December 2015 , the IAU announced the winning names were <unk> for υ Andromedae A and Saffar , Samh and Majriti for three of its planets ( b , c , and d , respectively ) . 
