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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: International Star Registry - A Clever Scam?
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 07:54:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 07:54:42 1985
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To anyone who is wondering, an outfit called International Star
Registry is indeed a real outfit and they do indeed name stars
after anyone who wants it done.  Now, they are not in the business
for the fun of it.  You pays your money and you gets the star.
If you will think about it, only the tiniest fraction of stars have
names or designations.  What they do is put your name on an, as
yet, unnamed star and include it in the international registry.
That's not too hard to do since anyone with a telescope can name
things not previously named in the firmament.   If you want a star
named after yourself, go ahead and do so.  The name can be
recognized officialy by sending it to the keepers of the 
registry, wherever they are.  I have a friend who's father has
a rather large crater on the moon named after him.  It even
appears on the National Geographic charts, even though it
cannot be seen from earth (it is on the right edge looking
at the moon).  Go ahead and plunk down the money and get a
star named after yourself.  There are plenty to go around.
Or, if you don't want to spend the dough, do it yourself.
We could name stars from now till doomsday and never even
scratch the surface.  Besides, what sounds better, T45l6
or the Joseph P. Scudsworth star?  Have fun, it is not
a rip off.
T. C. Wheeler