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To: Verginius Rufus
It would have been better if they had left it at that.

They name comets after their discoverers, why not planets?

13 posted on 04/08/2006 4:43:18 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Sign up to donate monthly and you will be automatically entered in our "Win a Bear Hug Contest")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Verginius Rufus

According to Wikipedia:

"Finally, Bode, as editor of the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, opted for Uranus, after Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos"

Not sure "Ouranos" would have been much of an improvement.


15 posted on 04/08/2006 4:48:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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