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Old 24-January-2006, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
From the faq of the swedish site:

"The named stars are not registered at an official organisation, scientists use coordinate to identify and locate stars. A star is mainly boiling gas floating around in space. Therefore ownership is not possible, but you can name a star and get the name registered with us."
Of course, no one is selling ownership, but they are implying the star will "officially" have the desired name of the customer. Although, they do say "registered with us" should be a clue that there is a limit to how official the name would be.

Is this how you would read it, or is there more merit as read in sweedish?
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