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To: Verginius Rufus

What to name it? Xena? Cyclops? Melania? Ivanka?


20 posted on 07/12/2016 10:09:41 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Those names are too Eurocentric, and may have all been used already for asteroids. The recent trend seems to be to take names from non-Western mythologies. If the name is impossible to pronounce or remember, so much the better.

Maybe the recently-discovered Etruscan inscription will prove to have the name of a previously-unknown Etruscan deity. That might work (but only if the Etruscans are believed to have immigrated from Asia).

30 posted on 07/12/2016 1:27:54 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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