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Date: Sat, 12 May 90 02:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #392

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 11 : Issue 392

Today's Topics:
			   Re: Naming Stars
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Date: 12 May 90 05:00:39 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@ucsd.edu  (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Naming Stars

In article <1990May11.234515.2595@wam.umd.edu> jfloyd@wam.umd.edu (Jason Edward Floyd) writes:
>	I have heard that it is possible to name a star or galaxy. Is this
>true? If so how does one go about doing it?

(1) Discover it.
(2) Propose the name to the International Astronomical Union.
(3) Hope they agree with you about the choice of name.

At least, this is the procedure for asteroids and the like.  Your chances
of tacking a name on a star/galaxy are poorer, given that it's not usual
practice nowadays.

There are people who claim to sell you the right to a star named after
you, or the equivalent.  Such names have no official status; those claims
are basically scams.
-- 
Life is too short to spend    |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
debugging Intel parts. -Van J.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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