What are examples of products or advertisements named after objects from or concepts about our solar system?

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1. Art D says:

   March 31, 2010 at 4:01 pm

   Quasar, Sun, Moon Phase, Shooting Star, Milky Way, Mars, Saturn, Whole Earth, Gemini, Mercury, Eclipse, Orion, Big Dipper, Taurus, Centaurus, Hercules, Leo, Sirius, Blue Moon, Moon Glow, Sun Shine, Constellation, Venus, Big Bang, Star Gazer, Star Burst, Star Light, Galaxy, etc…
2. surf_dude says:

   March 31, 2010 at 4:01 pm

   Automobiles have been named Comet, Mercury and Saturn (and there’s probably a lot more to that list).
3. Eli says:

   March 31, 2010 at 4:01 pm

   Saturn—> Automobiles

   Mars Bars/Milky Way—-> Candy

   Look at the end of the short film Logorama
4. arslan says:

   March 31, 2010 at 4:01 pm

   Some foods are named after space objects
   - Moon pies
   - Starburst – candy
   - Milky Way
   - Mars Bars
   - Stars bars
   - Tang – was advertised as being used / by and for astronauts
   - Sun-Tea
   - Sunny-D

   Some Companies are named after space objects
   - Starz – movie company
   - Orion – film productions
   - Solaris – production house
   - Helios – game production house
   - Heiliosphere – game production house

   Cars are always a favorite for naming after constellations or Greco-Roman or space stuff.
   - Pluto (the planet) – was named after the Disney Dog/character.
   - Solara – Toyota’s sports coupe – named after the Sun.
   - Saturn – US Car manufacturer.
   - Constellation – older model US car.
   - Comet – older model US car & British Jet Airplane.
   - Mercury – Type of US car – named after Mercury.
   - Voyager – Named after the space probe.

   Weapon Systems
   - Polaris – Nuclear missile series – named after the north star – because they were designed to be fired from under the Arctic Ice at the former USSR.
   - Javlin/Starburst – Missile System
   - Taurus – Missile

   Devices or technologies
   - Helio – Communicator – Named also after the Sun.
   - Alienware – Themed high-end computers themed with the – Roswell, NM UFO mythos .
   - Sirius – satellite receiver

   Cargo ships and Repair ships of the US Navy are named after star names or greco-roman names
   - USS AK Sirius
   - USS AK Capella
   - USS AG Prometheus

   Computers and Operating Systems are sometimes given designations which are cosmic in origin.
   - Solaris Unix
   - Altair Computers
   - Hyperion Cubes
   - ALGOL – (a large blue star) is also the name of an obsolete language.

   System planners often name their computers after things scifi related, I once worked in an office where the systems administrators had named all the computers after planets or moons in the solar system.