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Old 26-June-2008, 08:39 PM
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Cool Products With Astronomical Names?

Tried this on another site and got lots of names from present and past products. Such as:

"Comet" cleanser
Mercury "comet" cars
Mars candy bars
Milky Way candy bars

And so on....do you have any? If kind of . obscure, put the product type in "( )". telescope co.s or model names - that's too easy!

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heres one for you: stardrops detergent
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and another the milkyway you can hold in your hand:
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"Subaru" is often mentioned in astro magazines--it's what the Japanese call the Pleiades, and the logo is a representation of Venus passing through the Pleiades.

There's also:

Chevy Nova

well, all Mercury cars, and Saturn too,

Sirius satellite radio
Orion entertainment

Tide detergent (well, tides are caused by the moon)

Toyota Solaria

Sun computers and their Solaris operating system

Universal pictures, maybe?

Ford Taurus
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Old 26-June-2008, 10:33 PM
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how about being in this super NOVA car?
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or in ORION? MADE BY FORD.
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If movies are considered products, then Beetlejuice, obviously a play on Alpha Orionis.

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Starburst - Candy

Saturn - Cars

Mercury Mountainer - Cars

Venus - Razors for Women
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The oldies will remember this one: "Q u a s a r.... by Motorola"
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does STARBUCKS count?
i haven't had one yet
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The Galaxy 500 (car).

Aunt and uncle had a 2-door, blue/white Galaxy 500 in the mid-70s. I loved that car!
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Mugs - I used to repair them Quasars many,many years ago in a TV shop. They were pretty good for their days. I guess I'm an "oldie" then (60 but feeling like 80). Mr Q
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I seem to remember a "pulsar" watch.

There was once a breakfast serial called "moonbeams" or something like that.

Sunbeam kitchen appliances.

Mars supermarket chain.

Juno ISP (one of the four largest asteroids is Juno).

Corona beer.
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I'll have to admit, there are a few people older than I am on this board, but not many. Yet I consider myself middle aged. I'm old enough to have watched a real live Apollo launch, and vividly remember the live televised broadcast of Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon.

I only remember Quasar TVs from the commercials - we never actually had one.
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Actually, the Saturn line of cars were named after the Saturn V Moon Rocket, which was named after the planet. Von Braun needed a project name after the Jupiter IRBM, and Saturn came naturally.

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Oh, and there is Eclipse Gum and Orbit Gum.
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Sky digital.
Galaxy chocolate bars.
Buzz Light Year.
Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Clusters


mugs you are not one of the oldest people on this site, there are many here who are the same age as you and more that are a lot older.
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Corona beer.
Hmmmmm, I don't think so. That's a Mexican brand and "Corona" is Spanish for crown of course. I live near the Border and am not aware of any association of this product to the Corona Borealis or other astronomy tie-in.
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Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Clusters
"Cluster" isn't astronomy-related by itself.
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