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- From: max@west.darkside.com (Erik Max Francis)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Naming asteriods question..
- Message-ID: <Z64gwB3w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 03:42:46 GMT
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- andromed@Hail.ATM.Dal.Ca (Mike Boschat) writes:
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- > Why cannot asteriods be named after political leaders, like
- > JFK, RFK. I see one named for Dr.Martin Luther King...so
- > why not the two Kennedys', and P.Trudeau one of our
- > Canadian Prime Ministers.
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- There are a _few_ asteroids named after people, I think, such as
- Einsteinia.
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