Word Ways
Abstract
No area of study creates more new names than astronomy. The USNO B1.0 database includes about a billion stars, and the Guide Star Catalog II will contain about two billion stars and galaxies when it is done. Unfortunately for logologists, though, the vast quantity of names requires that virtually all of them be formed by conventional rules with no room from creativity.
Recommended Citation
Isaak, Mark
(2006)
"Wordplay in Astronomy,"
Word Ways: Vol. 39
:
Iss.
2
, Article 17.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol39/iss2/17
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