what planet did princess leia call home?
Alderaan
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 He listed the address of his personal web page announcing the discovery as / ~ mbrown / planetlila and in the chaos following the controversy over the discovery of Haumea , forgot to change it . Rather than needlessly anger more of his fellow astronomers , he simply said that the webpage had been named for his daughter and dropped " Lila " from consideration . 

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 The fictional island of Laerg , which features in the 1962 novel Atlantic Fury by Hammond Innes , is closely based on Hirta . 

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 The settings within Tintin have also added depth to the strips . Hergé mingles real and fictional lands into his stories , along with a base in Belgium from where Tintin sets off — originally 26 Labrador Road , but later Marlinspike Hall . The role of setting is aptly demonstrated in King Ottokar 's Sceptre , in which Hergé creates two fictional countries , Syldavia and Borduria , and invites the reader to tour them in text through the insertion of a travel brochure into the storyline . Other fictional lands include Khemed on the Arabian Peninsula and San Theodoros , São Rico , and Nuevo Rico in South America , as well as the kingdom of Gaipajama in India . Along with these fictitious locations , actual nations were employed such as Belgium , Switzerland , the United Kingdom , the United States , the Soviet Union , Congo , Peru , India , Egypt , Indonesia , Nepal , Tibet , and China . Other actual locales used were the Sahara , the Atlantic Ocean , and the Moon . 

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 The story of Shikasta is retold in the third book of the Canopus series , The Sirian Experiments ( 1980 ) , this time from the point of view of Sirius . Shikasta reappears in the fourth book in the series , The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ( 1982 ) , and the Zones , briefly mentioned in Shikasta , are the subject of the second book in the series , The Marriages Between Zones Three , Four and Five ( 1980 ) . 

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 The star 's unusual name inspired the title of the 1988 film Beetlejuice , and script writer Michael McDowell was impressed by how many people made the connection . He added that they had received a suggestion the sequel be named Sanduleak @-@ 69 202 after the former star of SN 1987A . In August Derleth 's short story " The Dweller in the Darkness " set in H. P. Lovecraft 's Cthulhu Mythos , Betelgeuse is the home of the " benign " Elder Gods . The identity of the red star Borgil mentioned in Lord of the Rings was much debated ; Aldebaran , Betelgeuse and the planet Mars were touted as candidates . Professor Kristine Larsen has concluded the evidence points to it being Aldebaran as it precedes Menelvagor ( Orion ) . Astronomy writer Robert Burnham , Jr. proposed the term padparadaschah which denotes a rare orange sapphire in India , for the star . In the popular science fiction series The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams , Ford Prefect was from " a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse . " In the poetic work Betelguese , a Trip Through Hell by Jean Louis De Esque , hell is on Betelgeuse because De Esque believed that it was " a celestial pariah , an outcast , the largest of all known comets or outlawed suns in the universe . " 
