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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Re: A new Shuttle to replace Challenger: What Name?
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 12:36:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 12:36:27 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.

I suspect that the the trick is that we are talking about the planet VENUS
(you know, as in the goddess of love, etc.). Having a feature of a planet
normally associated with females named after a male seems somehow
inappropriate. 

Okay, so call me a purist...

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