One day, no doubt, astronomers will map this sky and name the patterns the stars make.

The astronomer named Ptolemy listed Taurus when he made a list of 48 constellations.

An astronomer named Sahna.

Arabian astronomers named it Mankib al Faras, meaning the "Horse's shoulder".

On May 14, 1983, astronomer Norman G. Thomas discovered an asteroid and named it Hubbard in honor of Ralph Hubbard.

The season they began landing colonists, the dominant feature in the planet's night sky was a beautiful blooming cloud of gas that astronomers had named the North American Nebula.

In February 1906 a German astronomer named Max Wolf saw a Trojan asteroid and named it 588 Achilles.

(Penguin, $7.95) An astronomer named Starlady Sandra, discoverer of the planet Athena, runs off with a jazz musician named Mad Jack.

The basis of this accusation rested on the fact that German astronomers had named an asteroid after him.

Typically, astronomers will name their discoveries after other notable people or each other, but an exception was made in this case.