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Originally Posted by ngcles
Someone fairly recently has "given" this one a "common name" -- the "Eye of Cleopatra". How her eye is different from anyone else's is a bit of mystery to me! Oh how I loathe the sport of dreaming up "common" names.  |
Well Les, it can't be any worse than adopting 'celebrities' in the naming of asteroids! I notice that near-Earth asteroids 17744 Jodiefoster, 19578 Kirkdouglas and 91287 Simon-Garfunkel will have closest approaches on January 3, 12 & 14 respectively!!!!!!
Cheers -