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Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.)

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> >
> > cld wrote:
> > > Our solar system should have a name, to distinguish it from all the
> > > other solar systems.
> >
> > 1. You have posted to sci.physics.relativity.  This is off-topic here.
> >    You should have posted to <news:alt.astronomy>.  Next time, check
> >    <news:news.newusers.questions> to determine the right newsgroup for
> >    your question/discussion/problem.
> >
> > 2. Apropos names: Your postings will be more likely read if you post
> >    under your real name.  Statistically, single-named posters are more
> >    likely to be trolls or lusers; those only posting under acronyms
> >    doubly so.
> >
> > 3. It is required that the "From" header field of your posting contains
> >    an e-mail address.  "clowd@nimbus.net.inv" is not because there is no
> >    top-level domain ".inv", but there could be in the future.  See also
> >    RFC 5536 "NetNews Article Format".
> >
> > 4. "Solar System" *is* the official name used by the International
> >    Astronomical Union (IAU), and the preceding is the recommended
> >    spelling.  However, I grant you that since the (yet unfinished?)
> >    redesign of the IAU Web site, it is even more difficult to find it
> >    there.[1]
> >
> >    There is only one Solar System because there is only one star called Sol,
> >    Latin for English "the Sun" ("Sol" is derived from the Roman deity "Sol
> >    Invictus", "the unconquered sun"[2]; "sun" developed from Old English
> >    "sunne", cognate with similar words in other Germanic languages[3]),
> >    which is the primary of that planetary system.  Other planetary systems
> >    ought NOT be called "solar systems".
> >
> >    Use of the name "Sol" can also be found in astronomy software, for
> >    example Celestia.  For that reason I prefer the name "Sol System" that is
> >    also found in good science-fiction.
> >
> > ____
> > [1]
> > <https://web.archive.org/web/20250301230114/https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/>
> > [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_(Roman_mythology)>
> > [3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Etymology>
> >
> > ¹ Note that the term "star system" for such a system of celestial objects
> >   around a star or multiple stars, that you often find in popular-scientific
> >   and science-fiction contexts is wrong.  The term "star system" exists in
> >   astronomy, but means a system of two or more stars, not planets or smaller
> >   bodies, orbiting each other.  For example, the Alpha Centauri System is
> >   correctly named so because it consists of the stars Alpha Centauri A
> >   (Rigil Kentaurus), Alpha Centauri B (Toliman), and Alpha Centauri C
> >   (Proxima Centauri): <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri>
> > --
> > PointedEars
> >
> > Twitter: @PointedEars2
> > Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.
> 
> That's ALL sound sooo confusing...
> all dis talk of sol, sun, Roman days...
> 
> It was then when Caesar and Jesus Christ time...
> 
> It's not the God of the Sun that the romans were worshipping...it was
> 
> the Sun of God...the Sol of God...the Son of God.
> 
> I understand how the confusion came about..but please get dis stuff
> right!
> 
> dat star in the sky everyone was following is the sol.
> 
> God is the Light.
> 
> yous are mistaken the sun of god, or god of the son, it's the son of
> God!
> 
> Yous speld Sonday wrong...
> 
> then Monday.
> 
> Sunday is God day.
> 
> Solday.
> 
> Sonday.
> 
> Jesus
> is
> the
> Sun
> of
> God.
> 
> Sunday is
> God day.
> 
> Atheist Day is Hellday.
> 
> Hell of a week if you ask me..
> 
> Fat ugly girls like to protest to pick up an ice guy.
> 
> How do you spel Learing anyway?
> 
> I see Trump wants to get rid of all the
> communists in the USA hemisphere..
> 
> dat explains why they killed JFK, he
> let those communists in our hemisphere.
> 
> dat to me is punishable by death.


To ALLOW communists to enter our hemisphere, and
take over Cuba in OUR hemisphere...is unacceptable.

The only good commie is a dead commie.








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Names. cld <clowd@nimbus.net.inv> - 2026-01-07 16:00 +0000
  Re: Names. athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-01-07 17:45 +0000
  Re: Names. Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-07 10:00 -0800
    Names and designations of celestial objects (was: Names) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-01-07 21:29 +0100
      Re: Names and designations of celestial objects Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-07 21:00 -0800
        Re: Names and designations of celestial objects Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-01-08 15:06 +0100
          Re: Names and designations of celestial objects Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-08 08:37 -0800
  Re: Names. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-01-07 20:40 +0100
  [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-01-07 21:11 +0100
    Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-01-08 23:14 -0800
      Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-01-09 21:24 -0800
      Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-01-09 21:27 -0800
        Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-01-10 08:28 -0800
          Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-01-10 12:57 -0800
    Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System squalk <sq@net.inv> - 2026-01-14 20:31 +0000
      Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-14 18:34 -0800
        Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System squalk <sq@net.inv> - 2026-01-15 19:19 +0000
          [OT] Address munging (was: [OT] Name of the Solar System) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-01-15 23:31 +0100
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      Re: Names. cld <clowd@nimbus.net.inv> - 2026-01-09 19:11 +0000
        Re: Names. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-01-14 18:31 -0800
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