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Look, Up in the Sky! Strange Star Names

Posted September 05, 2008 10:36 AM

From SPACE.com:

If you have ever considered "purchasing" a star for the purpose if attaching your name or the name of a friend or relative to it, the following tale is for you. Some commercial companies purport to allow you to name a star. Typically, for a fee, they'll send you a nice certificate and a chart from a star atlas showing the position of "your" star. The only problem is that the star name that you purchased amounts to nothing more than a novelty and is not officially recognized by any reputable astronomical or scientific institution.

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09/06/2008 8:48 AM

When I was in college, a friend of mine came up with a scheme to raise beer money. He sold quit-claim deeds (essentially worthless certificates rescinding "his" rights to property) for 1-acre plots of land. The plots were on the Lunar surface. So there's a pretty good chunk of the Moon that he can no longer set foot on without someone else's permission, poor fellow!

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09/07/2008 4:00 AM

My congratulations to your 4000! And nice avatar.

It's laying in man's nature to mistake and to be mistaken, to possess something[no matter what] that could be declared as "mine".

I wonder why didn't yet sold clouds over ours heads? Why did they begin from Lunar surface and Stars?

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09/07/2008 4:35 AM

EnviroMan on your arrival at 4000 Posts.

The Awards Committee have much pleasure in presenting you with the along with a replacement

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09/08/2008 7:40 AM

You are too kind! I see this is 3,500 for you, as well.

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09/07/2008 5:04 AM

Of course most of what you see from the Northern Hemisphere is not visible from "here "Down Under".

Mind you, we have a whole new selection and you can choose your own name for most of them.

Applications are taken by myself daily.

Prices dependent on Star visibility from earth, variability, brightness, Solar Mass, expected life, and more.

Ownership of a star gives the happy owner an almost limitless supply of fuel, made in the most energy-efficient process yet discovered.

Thus your purchase may be regarded as very eco-friendly, and none of those messy Carbon Debit problems either.

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