Word: napolitania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professional astronomers are not above sentiment. Caltech's Charles Kowal, who has found scores of heavenly bodies, from supernovas to moonlets, christened one asteroid Napolitania, after Naples, Italy, his wife's home town. Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics called another Nancy, for his wife. Lowell Observatory's Edward Bowell, in what is admittedly a minority view, sees nothing wrong with someone seeking immortality by hitching his moniker to a star. After all, he says, "nobody owns the stars, do they...
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