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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: re female planets
Message-ID: <521@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 04:03:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 04:03:14 1985
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In article <273@npois.UUCP> jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) writes:
>
>	Earth and Venus are the only female planets, true enough Muffy.
>There are some other bodies named after mythical females though.
>Ceres, Io, Europa, Titania, to name a few of the biggest. If you are
>pointing out a bias towards male names, you are justified.
>
>			Anton Winteroak


Actually, I hadn't really considered it, it just occurred to me at the
time.  Now I'm curious.  What *is* the distribution of male/female/animal/
thing names for stars, planets, constellations, etc?  Has anybody paid any
attention to this rather useless (but vaguely interesting) statistic?

                         Muffy