From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
Subject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?
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In-reply-to: jafoust@cco.caltech.edu's message of 23 Apr 1993 18:44:19 GMT

In article <1r9de3INNjkv@gap.caltech.edu> jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeff Foust) writes:

   In a recent article jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
   >	If the  new  Kuiper belt object *is*  called 'Karla', the next
   >one  should be called 'Smiley'.

   Unless I'm imaging things, (always a possibility =) 1992 QB1, the Kuiper Belt
   object discovered last year, is known as Smiley.

As it happens the _second_ one is Karla. The first one was
Smiley. All subject to the vagaries of the IAU of course,
but I think they might let this one slide...

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