Re: proposed name for Saturnian moon S/2005 S1

In message <4291d3de$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, William C. Keel <keel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
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On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:51:45 -0400, 7lv43nn0c5@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike
Flugennock) wrote:


In case they run out of more and more obscure Greek or Roman mythological
figures, and if any JPL folks are lurking here -- may I suggest, as a name
for the newly-discovered moon in Saturn, "Cowabunga". I figured this was
only appropriate as it's the "wavemaking moon".


...It works for me, and probably everyone else with a clue. However,
astronomical bodies are currently named by a bunch of transvestite and
transsexual Frogs who, to this day, refuse to acknowledge "Mount
Marilyn" or any of the other names deservedly assigned to locations on
the Moon by those who discovered and/or visited there. As soon as the
IAU is disbanded and its members executed, the sooner we'll see more
fun and apropos names applied to stellar bodies.


Err, as in IAU member with neither French nor amphibian ancestry
within the recorded annals, we do other things, you know.



Come on - they did let Harrison, Starr, Lennon, and McCartney
in for asteroids, along with Spock (named after a cat, making
a statement and thereafter resulting in a tightening of the
rules)

Does that mean an asteroid can't be named for Laika? If so, I hope they make another exception, calling her a dead astronaut or something.

Things could be a lot worse - as Arthur Clarke writes somewhere, we could have had everything named by a US general who likes baseball or a Soviet bureaucrat sticking pins in the Moscow telephone directory.

BTW, according to a post on alt.astronomy citing this page <http://www.bama.ua.edu/~bolan003/>, a moon of Ganymede has been found and named Rooster. Am I right in thinking this is complete nonsense?
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