Re: proposed name for Saturnian moon S/2005 S1


Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
> In message <4291d3de$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, William C. Keel
> <keel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >> 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)


Biological taxonomy probably serves as the bad example for something to
avoid. Decades aga, one fellow submitted a lot of proposed generic
names for beetles he described. The names got approved until an English
speaker noticed Peggikishme, Suziekishme, Marikishme and a slew of
others. They cracked down on the frivolity after that. The other
extreme is probably the Spanish, who almost everywhere they went named
everything from towns, to mountains, to lakes, to ships, to plants
after only about a dozen saints and the Virgin Mary. Very boring.


s 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.

If an asteroid hasn't been named for Laika, it just means no one's
proposed it yet.

>
> 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?
> --


Hint: if the first moon of a moon had been discovered, would you expect
the home site of a gay boy's band to be the best source for
information?? Especially when they don't cite a source?

.

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