Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Manley.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA From: Manley.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Name of the sun Message-ID: <4548@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 16:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.4548 Posted: Thu Aug 25 16:58:00 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Aug-83 20:36:16 EDT Lines: 4 It is appropriate to name our galaxy after Giordano Bruno and our sun after Copernicus, especially since Bruno was burned at the stake for holding these views while Copernicus just barely escaped this fate by dying before his book was published.