Word: botolphia
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Other names of the group celebrate famous wordly municipalities. Botolphia and Cantabria are the representatives in the court of the sky of Boston and Cambridge, and Portlandia and Winchester are the heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...
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