Sale of Star Names
There are a number of companies that sell naming rights to obscure stars for commemorative purposes. These sales of star names are unrelated to the official designations made by the IAU and the names are not recognised by any international scientific or registration body. As a result a single star can potentially be named independently by multiple companies, or multiple times by the same company.
Read more about this topic: Star Designation
Famous quotes containing the words sale of, sale, star and/or names:
“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and “repeating” votes, or wealth by fraud.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It’s better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.”
—James Gleason (1886–1959)
“The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honour.”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)