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- From: pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland)
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- Subject: Re: Ian Stewart's "Mathematical Recreations" column
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 10:25:21 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu.'s message of 21 Jan 93 23:20:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.232017.2305@ariel.ec.usf.edu> mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
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- Not any more. In fact, not for a while---otherwise, St. George's
- planet would be orbiting the sun. Both astronomy and biology
- have committees of experts who approve the names. This becomes
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- ...
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- Funny, I hadn't heard that good old King George had been canonized.
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- (When Herschel discovered what is now known as Uranus, he called it
- Georgium Sidus, after the reigning monarch.)
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- Paul
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