Dictionary of Minor Planet NamesSpringer Science & Business Media, 11 nov. 2013 - 939 sidor to the Third Edition People love to name things. Parents name their children. Children name their pets. Why? Otherwise rational human beings put an inordinate effort into this naming activity. Some names are selected to remind the namer of some other person, place or event. In other instances, the choice of a name means something that "sounds good" , or is easily spelled. "What's the baby's name?" is much more likely to be asked than some question'about its state of health, its weight or the color of its eyes. People are often named according to religious tradition, exemplified in the custom, in some countries, of speaking of a "christian" name. In other countries, it is a "given" name, often the name of some favored relative, particularly a father, as in the system of patronymics. In some parts of the world ci, name may be more practical, making it dear that this person is "number one son", for example. But in such a case, why not simply give numbers to the children in order of their birth? One might presume that other animals number their children: take one away, and the mother will realize that the count is wrong, possibly even to the point of knowing precisely which infant has been removed. The most basic part of speech is a "noun", a word that itself means "name", particularly in its dominant use as the subject, i.e., in the "nominative case". |
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... planets also received names . In a few cases , the names were inspired mnemonically by the pro- visional designations ... planetary astronomers do evidently cultivate that air of irrationality common to the general population . It may be ...
... planets also received names . In a few cases , the names were inspired mnemonically by the pro- visional designations ... planetary astronomers do evidently cultivate that air of irrationality common to the general population . It may be ...
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... planets in the solar system is the privilege of the discoverers . Contrary to most other kinds of celestial objects which receive complex alpha - numerical designations , the names of minor planets often say more about the discoverers ...
... planets in the solar system is the privilege of the discoverers . Contrary to most other kinds of celestial objects which receive complex alpha - numerical designations , the names of minor planets often say more about the discoverers ...
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... planets are being discovered ; it is inevitable that this dictionary can be no more than an inventory of the situation at this moment . A compilation of this nature is by definition bound to be out of date before it appears in print ...
... planets are being discovered ; it is inevitable that this dictionary can be no more than an inventory of the situation at this moment . A compilation of this nature is by definition bound to be out of date before it appears in print ...
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... planets known at the time . Problems only arose with the dramatic increase of minor- planet discoveries which began ... planetary symbols - I took the liberty to introduce encircled numbers instead of symbols . ] A number was given by ...
... planets known at the time . Problems only arose with the dramatic increase of minor- planet discoveries which began ... planetary symbols - I took the liberty to introduce encircled numbers instead of symbols . ] A number was given by ...
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... planets will not be accepted if , in the opinion of the Minor Planet Names Committee , they are too nearly similar to those of ... Planetary System Nomenclature ' was found in order to avoid an unnecessary duplication of names . After ...
... planets will not be accepted if , in the opinion of the Minor Planet Names Committee , they are too nearly similar to those of ... Planetary System Nomenclature ' was found in order to avoid an unnecessary duplication of names . After ...
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amateur astronomers Anderson Mesa April asteroid Astron Astrophysical August Bowell at Anderson Bus at Siding C. J. van Houten C. S. Shoemaker Chernykh at Nauchnyj Citation prepared Debehogne December director Discovered 1960 September Discovered 1981 March E. F. Helin E. W. Elst February following a suggestion G. N. Neujmin Goethe Link Observatory Groeneveld at Palomar Helin at Palomar January Kaneda at Kushiro L. V. Zhuravleva La Silla lunar crater Mrkos at Klet N. S. Chernykh Name proposed Name suggested Named in honor Named in memory November Obituaries published observations Observatory at Nanking occurrence is unknown orbit Palomar person or occurrence planetary Purple Mountain Observatory Reinmuth at Heidelberg remarks to planet S. J. Bus September 24 Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Siding Spring Silla Smirnova at Nauchnyj T. M. Smirnova telescope Ueda and H University Väisälä at Turku Watanabe at Kitami Wolf at Heidelberg Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj