Morris Jones wrote:

Martin R. Howell wrote:
In these ads, it is stated that the new name of a previously only
numerically designated star will be kept in copyrighted book form in the
U.S. Patent Office.

I think you misheard. It's filed in the "U.S. Copyright Office."

They have lots of fiction there.


Ahhhh. . .yep, you are correct.

Thanks, Mojo.

Actually, as with many of my posts which may not appear at first reading to
have any real intent or direction (like my "Full Moon Names" post of a few
months back) I actually posted this to provide people with some interesting
and odd names of a few stars. Everybody knows of Altair, Enif, Deneb, and
Arcturus. . .now they have something which can be dropped in most any
conversation (with polished segue skills, of course g) to either amaze or
bore the listener.



Regards,



Martin