re: Convention on naming newly discovered planets?

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Raoul — 7/29/2003 5:50:16 AM (archived)

Just read in an astronomy magazine there's indeed a heated debate about this.
3 schools: let's name them after the gods of remaining mythologies of this or that tribe somewhere in the world: let's keep their actual name or code which relates to their star;
let's have the discoverer choose himself

Raoul

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Should we rename the Moon? - Delbert ;-) - 7/28/2003 6:07:13 PM
- Why bother? - Tom Brosz - 7/28/2003 10:23:18 PM
  - re: LOL, but don't forget. - Marcia - 7/29/2003 3:48:13 PM
    - re: LOL, but don't forget. - Tom Brosz - 7/29/2003 4:01:51 PM
  - re: Convention on naming newly discovered planets? - Success_Machine - 7/28/2003 11:08:25 PM
    - In Search of Planet "E" - Nick Hoffman - 7/29/2003 9:05:31 AM
    - re: Convention on naming newly discovered planets? - Raoul - 7/29/2003 5:50:16 AM
      - re: Convention on naming newly discovered planets? - Marcia - 7/29/2003 3:45:02 PM
        
        re: Now we know who to blame for naming "Uranus" - Success_Machine - 7/29/2003 6:02:42 PM
        
        re: I propose to rename "Uranus", list of possibilities - Success_Machine - 7/29/2003 6:34:46 PM
        
        re: There's no problem with Uranus in languages other than english:-) (n/t) - Raoul - 7/29/2003 7:11:11 PM
- re: Habits hold on a long time - Raoul - 7/28/2003 7:46:10 PM

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