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From: gbr@mb2c.UUCP (Jerry Ruhno)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Naming Things after the Astronauts
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 07:48:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 07:48:19 1986
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> In article <2911@ut-ngp.UUCP> dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP writes:
> 
> >BTW, did the Russians run out of craters on Venus or what?  Surely they
> >could find 5 more to name after the men abord the shuttle.  I like the
> >idea of naming 7 of the newly discovered moons of Uranus after the
> >astronauts.
> 
> Moons are for gods; craters are for people.
> 
> C. Wingate

  The way I heard it was that since Venus is the goddess of beauty,
  the Russians would only use women's name for craters or any thing else
  on the planet.

						Jerry Ruhno
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