First, a note of correction going back to Kevin's original message -- the object is called the "Floating Potential Probe" (which I learned from checking the link that Kevin sent). If it's launched in its deployed state, it might be pretty interesting, although it's not very big and will probably require a telescope or at least big binoculars. Second, although I personally much prefer to use common names of objects to stark catalog and designation numbers (because names are much much easier for me to remember), there are other people on this list who don't care at all about the common names and never use them. At least one person called them "vulgar names" in hopes of discouraging their general use. Search for the terms "common names seesat". Some of the discussion was in 1998. The common names are less reliable than the numbers (although even those get officially changed from time to time). So I guess I'm saying that some people might object to too much discussion about the common names of objects, maybe. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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