First, allow me apologize to the people of Poland, astronomers, and mathematicians everywhere. With a periodic table made of cats, the element Copernicum, named after Copernicus, I thought to myself: CAT-PURR-NICUS. I just could not resist. Copernicus was a polish mathematician and astronomer who gave us the first model of a heliocentric system. Heliocentric means that the sun is at the center. The cat is supposed to be a cat version of Copernicus. Google "Copernicus", and you'll see. There's a mushroom cloud in his window because the element Copernicum is produced by nuclear fusion when bombarding zinc ions onto a lead target. It decays a split second after.