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Old 08-July-2009, 06:22 AM
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The IAU should design a simple program that randomly generates a dozen names composed of six letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet comprised of three consonants and three vowels or four consonants and two vowels. A lucky lottery winner could then choose their favourite!

We would have trans-neptunian objects called things like a-l-a-n-zh-a or g-r-ai-m-oo-l.
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Yonder is Dubhe seen on Earth tonight as it was in the days of Grover Cleveland's presidency whereas this way is Deneb seen as it was in the lifetime of Muhammed . If one somehow travelled to Deneb at very close to c then whenever you looked back you'd measure Earth as closer to you than the distance you would simultaneously measure between Earth and Dubhe.
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