Or your dog, or favorite house plant, or whatever.
Via Bad Astronomy, we have learned of the Name That Satellite Project at NASA. NASA is trying to reverse the mistake of naming a sattelite "GLAST."
This appears to be the beginning of a new policy of satellite naming.
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