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From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)
Subject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 07:38:37 GMT
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tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:

>James Nicoll writes:

>>	If the  new  Kuiper belt object *is*  called 'Karla', the next
>> one  should be called 'Smiley'.

>No, no, no!  The previous one was called "Smiley".  1992 QB1 = Smiley,
>and 1993 FW = Karla.

>By the way, 1992 QB1 can never be known as "Smiley" officially, because
>that moniker has already been assigned to asteroid number 1613.

Could someone explain where these names come from?   I'm sure there's a 
perfectly good reason to name a planetoid "Smiley," but I'm equally sure that
I don't know what that reason is.
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Josh Hopkins                                          jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
		    "Find a way or make one."
	             -attributed to Hannibal
