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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Naming Things after the Astronauts
Message-ID: <876@felix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 16:01:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 16:01:38 1986
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In article <465@mb2c.UUCP> gbr@mb2c.UUCP (Jerry Ruhno) writes:
>  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.

Just out of curiousity, why are the Russians naming the craters on Venus?
Not that I mind them doing it, I just wondered how the scientists of the
world decide on who names what, and whether the rest of the world will
recognize these names.
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	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
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