[AZ-Observing] Name a Star? The Truth about Buying Your Place in Heaven
- From: Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:16:52 -0700
Name a Star? The Truth about Buying Your Place in Heaven
The pitch is tempting: Name a star after yourself or a loved one.
Aunt Martha will twinkle for eternity, winging through the Milky Way
on a parchment certificate and a prayer.
Hundreds of thousands of folks have taken the sales pitch at face
value. Others know the truth, and some still buy in. But there is a
lot of confusion. One SPACE.com reader recently asked, "Who gave them
the right to name stars? And then charge someone for the name?"
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Tis the season----See http://www.du.edu/~rstencel/Courses/NameAStar.htm
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Jeff Hopkins
HPO SOFT
Counting Photons
http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html
Hopkins Phoenix Observatory
7812 West Clayton Drive
Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A.
www.hposoft.com
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