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	Naming that Star - National Research Council Canada
		Since the starry sky is for us a beautiful, mystic and mysterious place, it is reasonable that people might want to name a star after a loved one, and have a permanent memorial in the night sky.
		The naming of astronomical objects is now, by international agreement, the responsibility of the International Astronomical Union.
		This avoids anarchy and naming stars after people who might be regarded with acclaim in some countries but reviled in others.
	www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca /eng/education/astronomy/tapping/2004/2004-11-03.html (599 words)

	Names of Astronomical Objects connected with Wales
		The crater Roberts is named after Isaac Roberts (1829-1904), pioneer astrophotographer (the crater actually honours both Isaac Roberts and Alexander W. Roberts, a South African astronomer, 1857-1938): it is situated on the Far Side of the Moon, close to the lunar North Pole.
		The crater Wallace is named after Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the biologist and independent discoverer of the theory of evolution.
		The crater Wilkins is named after Hugh Percy Wilkins (1896-1960), lunar observer and cartographer.
	brynjones.members.beeb.net /wastronhist/namesobjects.html (1274 words)

	Astronomical naming conventions
		Astronomers need to be able to assign systematic designations to unambiguously identify all of these objects, and at the same time give names to the most interesting objects and, where relevant, features of those objects.
		Objects in these catalogs are typically located with very high resolution, and assign designations to these objects based on their position in the sky.
		These names were based on a system of nomenclature developed in the late 19th century by the Italian astronomer Giovanni V. Schiaparelli (1879) and expanded in the early 20th century by Eugene M. Antoniadi (1929), a Greek-born astronomer working at Meudon, France.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/as/astronomical_naming_conventions.html (2246 words)

	Astronomy People : Starshine.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kepler, in 1600, became the assistant to the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the latter's observatory near Prague.
		A German born U.S. astronomer, educated at the University of Göttingen, whose studies of stars in the Andromeda galaxy led him, in the 1950's, to double the common estimate of the size and age of the universe.
		After examining other images taken over time, the only plausible explanation was that they were caused by a previously unknown moon orbiting Pluto at a distance of about 19,600 kilometers (12,100 miles) with a period of just over six days.
	www.starshine.com /frankn/astronomy/people.asp (4469 words)

	Astronomy Answers: AstronomyAnswerBook: Names
		It is said that the name Pluto was chosen for the planet because it begins with the first letter of the given and family names of the discoverer of the planet, Percival Lowell.
		The names of the moons of Saturn are the names of giants and their descendants from the mythology of the Greeks, Romans, Gauls, Inuits, and Norse.
		Names with a number in them are not very convenient, because more groups of that many stars can be found, so such names can be applied on other groups of stars as well.
	www.astro.uu.nl /~strous/AA/en/antwoorden/namen.html (2749 words)

	Pluto
		After Uranus was discovered, tiny changes in its observed orbit could not be accounted for by the gravitational effects of the other planets.
		It was discovered at a time when people were looking for another planet in that region of space, and when they were not looking for a large belt of cometary objects, as we are now (see the discussion of the Kuiper Belt).
		Pluto is named after the ancient Roman god of the underworld, which is a fitting name for a planet that lies so far from the warm Sun, receiving only 1/16,000 of the light we receive on Earth.
	filer.case.edu /~sjr16/pluto.html (1116 words)

	New World Found In Outer Solar System
		Astronomical detective work led to the stunning discovery of a large new world beyond Pluto and hiding in plain sight.
		The object could be the biggest in the Kuiper belt of rocky objects that orbit the outer reaches of the solar system.
		Estimates of the object's brightness posted by the MPC on Friday at 0027 GMT suggested the object could be as large as twice Pluto's diameter if it was relatively non-reflective object.
	www.rense.com /general67/colr.htm (748 words)

	English Astronomy
		Historically, amateur astronomers have contributed to many important astronomical discoveries, and astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs can still play an active role, especially in the discovery and observation of transient phenomena.
		Astronomers have gained a deep understanding of the physics of stars through observation and by means of computer simulations of the interior.
		The study of objects outside our galaxy is a branch of astronomy concerned with the formation and evolution of Galaxies, their morphology and classification, the examination of active galaxies and the groups and clusters of galaxies.
	articles.gourt.com /?article=astronomy (3859 words)

	Names of Solar System objects and surface features
		Names of persons or events of primarily military or political significance cannot be used until 100 years after event or the person’s death.
		Trans-Neptunian objects are to be named with mythological names associated with the underworld.
		The proposal for the name of (45) Eugenia's moon is an example of a citation for a name submitted to the IAU.
	www.johnstonsarchive.net /astro/names.html (2567 words)

	how do we name objects
		Although it isn’t necessarily important to know and remember the individual names of all the objects, it is important to at least recognise what it might be referring to when an obscure name or number is thrown at you.
		As it turns out these 109 objects are much more interesting than the comets he was after, since they turn out to be galaxies, nebulae and star clusters.
		Until recently they may have had an SAO number (named after the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) but as with all other things there are an enormous number of different catalogues to choose from.
	www.southernskies.com.au /astronomy/name.htm (994 words)

	Your name in the stars ... or maybe not \| csmonitor.com
		After I show people lovely pictures of colliding galaxies and newborn stars, they are justifiable angry when they ask what their names are, and I respond: "Well, this star here is HD149404, and I think that galaxy is NGC2207 and IC2163." Whatever happened to names like the Andromeda Galaxy, or the Magellanic Clouds?
		The only objects that can be named after living people are comets or asteroids, which are often named after the people who discover them (like comet Shoemaker-Levy, which smashed into Jupiter in 1994).
		Objects on planets (like mountain ranges or craters) can only be named after people who have been dead at least three years, are not religious or military figures or political figures more recent than the 19th century.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0306/p25s01-stss.htm (993 words)

	Haunted Hotspots (AZ)
		After the school was closed, the property was bought and re-opened as a bed and breakfast.
		People claim to hear screams near 51st and Indian School Rd. Some say that she goes in nearby houses and knocks things to the ground.
		After Abby's death, Noble was locked in a closet and left to die.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /haunt/az (8405 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Astronomy in the Bible
		The first visibility after sunset of the crescent moon determined the beginning of each month; and this was the only appeal to the skies made for the purposes of the Jewish ritual.
		Some half-dozen star-groups are named in the Scriptures, but authorities differ widely as to their identity.
		He recognizes in Mazzaroth the planet Venus in her double aspect of morning and evening star, pointing out that the luminary designated in the Book of Kings, with the sun and moon, and the "host of heaven" must evidently be next in brightness to the chief light-givers.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02029a.htm (2022 words)

	Internet Resources in Astronomy (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)
		Astronomical Data Center (ADC) NASA has officially determined that ADC services sufficiently overlap those provided by CDS and others to allow termination effective Oct. 1, 2002, and is directing ADC users to other sites, but the Science Data provides data search, data set lists, author index, user’s guide, and quick reference.
		Astronomical Society of Australia Publishes the Publications of the ASA, a refereed journal for new and significant research in astrophysics.
		Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) International nonprofit in California; publishes a technical journal, the Mercury Magazine, with abstracts of contents to 1994, including some full-text articles, and the Mercury E-zine, with spillover content from the print version.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/selected-internet/astronomy-selected.html (2874 words)

	Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas - Musca
		He was a mathematician and astronomer who made great contributions to the scientific revolution of his day.
		After two years of bad weather on St. Helena, he had observed a transit of Mercury, and cataloged 341 stars.
		In it, he argues that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were probably the same body, and he predicted it would return in 1758.
	www.hawastsoc.org /deepsky/mus/index.html (648 words)

	Party-Goers Get Asteroids Named Just for Them
		The names of pets were used at one time, but that ended after a Very Important Person's asteroid turned out to be adjacent to somebody's cat's asteroid, said Bowell, of the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
		Asteroids are the only celestial objects that can be named after living persons by their discoverers, Bowell said.
		Comets are usually named for their discoverers, and distant galaxies and stars generally have only numerical designations.
	www.space.com /science/solarsystem/asteroid_party_wg.html (511 words)

	pSkylights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After doing a bit of research, it has been discovered that this is a resurgence of an email about the spectacular Mars approach of TWO YEARS AGO.
		Although the true motivations and cultures of these mysterious people will never be known, the alignment of these stones made highly accurate predictions of many critical dates based on complex cycles of solar and lunar motions.
		After taking the summer off, we may be returning to the parking lot of Barnes and Noble later this Fall.
	forsythastronomicalsociety.org /faspub/june-july2005.html (3805 words)

	Sedna (2003 VB12)
		A large object of that temperature will give off much more heat than a small object of that temperature (just light a match and a bonfire are the same temperature, but a bonfire keeps you much warmer at night because it is so much bigger).
		Astronomers have been unable to agree on a precise definition of "planet", but we have a suggestion for a definition below which is both historically and scientifically motivated.
		Our newly discovered object is the coldest most distant place known in the solar system, so we feel it is appropriate to name it in honor of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, who is thought to live at the bottom of the frigid arctic ocean.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~mbrown/sedna (4671 words)

	Hubble Telescope Photographs Seven Objects Traveling In Pairs Beyond Pluto
		The objects are thought to be about the same size of 100 kilometers diameter (70 miles) and move around their common center of gravity the way ice skaters waltz around each other.
		Astronomers were actively looking for new objects at the time because the first Kuiper Belt Object had been discovered in 1992.
		Those objects, the source of those objects was originally the main asteroid belt, the asteroids in that belt that diverted somehow by gravity, collisions or whatever, to change their orbit and cross the orbit of the earth and they become dangerous.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/chat/715281/posts (3723 words)

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		While many were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, some are named after the people who discovered them, and others, as in the case of Dodson, receive the honor based on their valuable contribution to the field of astronomy.
		After fielding many questions from science centre visitors about what kind of telescopes they should purchase, and being dissatisfied with the quality of devices available in mainstream stores, he decided to turn his pastime into his job.
		Like many people, he enjoyed the tranquility and peace of last summer’s massive flout since it was a perfect night for star watching without the illuminating effect of city lights.
	www.gateway-to-the-universe.org /StargazerSteve.html (846 words)

	Eponym - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
		An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, which has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery or other item.
		Archons of Athens served a term of one year which took the name of that particular archon (e.g., 594 BC was called after Solon).
		The eponym gave apparent meaning to the mysterious names of tribes, and sometimes, as in the Sons of Noah, provided a primitive attempt at ethnology too, in the genealogical relationships of eponymous originators.
	www.medbib.com /Eponym (631 words)

	PAS Intermediate
		The theoretical limit of a telescope in resolving a pair is called the Dawes Limit named after the astronomer who discovered it.
		Astronomers know that the color of the surface of a star is a good estimation of the surface temperature of a star.
		Astronomers chart the position angles of doubles over time to compute the orbit and other calculations necessary to determine their masses.
	www.astronomical.org /astbook/intdouble.htm (1172 words)

	News in Science - New planetoid named after rain god - 22/08/2003
		The minor planet was found in March 2000 by Venezuelan and U.S. astronomers using a powerful telescope located at the Centre for Astronomical Studies observatory in Merida, Venezuela.
		Under the rules that govern the naming of astronomical bodies, managed by the International Astronomical Union, an association of astronomers, the object must be named after a mythological god.
		In March, after determining its orbit, the Venezuelan astronomers baptised the light-red planet Juya (pronouced Hoo-ya), but later changed the spelling to 'Huya' to avoid phonetic confusion in the English pronunciation of the name.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s930305.htm (398 words)

	NASA - Remarks by Administrator O'Keefe
		Now, with the successful initiation of the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, named for Professor Lyman Spitzer Jr., a true giant of 20th century astronomy, astronomers are able to look at the universe at high precision throughout almost all regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
		We should all recognize that the ability to have coordinated observations of objects in space is a relatively new phenomenon.
		Hubble and the people who operate this incredible device were even featured as heroes on 60 Minutes two years ago--a little different treatment than I got from Ed Bradley a few months ago.
	www.nasa.gov /audience/formedia/speeches/ok_astronomical_060104.html (3564 words)

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		For example, the IAU has asked that the names of famous women (particularly in the sciences) be submitted for naming features on the surface of Venus that have recently been revealed by the Magellan probe.
		Objects that were named prior to the formation of the IAU still retain their names.
		Astronomers are not police officers or prosecutors, and thus do not have the authority to issue "cease and desist" orders.
	enzerink.net /peter/Astronomy_with_Peter_Enzerink/Name_A_Star.html (3030 words)

	IDSnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pilachowski said Saturn is probably the most impressive of all the naked-eye objects that people look at with telescopes.
		Different objects are in view in the night sky depending on the season, because of the orbit of the earth and other planets around the sun.
		The observatory is named after Daniel Kirkwood, who established a tradition of astronomical research by conducting research on comets, meteors and asteroids.
	www.idsnews.com /news/story.php?id=34675 (718 words)

	Chinese Festival Cuisine - People Reunite With Their Family
		After having union dinner, the elder or married family member gives red packets to the unmarried and younger ones.
		People from different dialects have their own version of dumplings, most probably influenced by the differences in background, and hence, taste.
		The emperors ordered people who were very knowledgeable about astronomical calendric system to regulate sundials according to the length of the projection of objects under sunlight.
	www.the-chinesefood.com /festival.html (2286 words)

	Naming and Buying Stars - What you should know
		The naming and selling of celestial objects has been going on for several years but it is only in the last few years that enquiries have been directed to myself and the Society on a regular basis.
		For centuries names have been given to bright or notable celestial objects by astronomers, many of these names have stuck and are still in use today.
		After all, naming a star for a loved one may certainly be regarded as a romatic gesture.
	www.delscope.demon.co.uk /information/namingstars.htm (3884 words)

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