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Subject: Re: Name of the sun
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 00:54:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 00:54:00 1983
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Bill Pfeifer suggests that the name of our sun is "Copernicus," and the
name of our galaxy "Bruno Galaxy."  These are indeed the proper names
for those entities.

I believe the first person to suggest these names was Andrew Galambos,
an astrophysicist and social theorist.  His rationale is that, in
science, things are properly and usually named after their discoverers
or inventors or other primary contributors.  Copernicus is the first
person to correctly, permanently identify for all mankind the nature and
relative position of the sun; likewise, Giordano Bruno was the first to
identify that the visible stars, the visible components of our galaxy,
are suns like our own.  Who better to credit than these two men?