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Originally Posted by George
Has there been any discussion to allow an offical IAU star naming fund raiser, say for Hubble? Reserving the brighter stars for honoring scientists, naming all the 9th to 15th magnitude stars would produce stellar revenues of....$6.5 billion (at $50 a pop). Throw in whole galaxies with z > 1 and you can green shift into an additional $13 trillion (at $100 a pop). [HST, with life anew, will have to help, of course, as full color will be required, probably.]
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That would be terrible! The extent to which the world has been commercialised is bad enough. Having to contend with stars with names like Pepsi......... eugh!
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