[escepticos] RE OT registrar una estrella

[Jose Ramón Brox <ambroxius@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Lluis P.L" <southprat@xxxxxxxxx>


Hola.

Pues gracias por el aviso, porque buscando por Google ya habia
encontrado una empresa registradora y yo dispuesto a pagar 120 euracos
por un timo... lo que hace el amor...

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De nada Lluis, me alegro de haberte sido de ayuda.

Por fin he encontrado la referencia oficial de la IAU para que veas que es cierto lo que 
te digo. Estaba en el FAQ:

http://www.iau.org/BUYING_STAR_NAMES.244.0.html

The IAU frequently receives requests from individuals who want to buy star names or name 
stars after other persons.  Some commercial enterprises purport to offer such services for 
a fee.  However, such "names" have no formal or official validity whatever: A few bright 
stars have ancient, traditional Arabic names, but otherwise stars have just catalogue 
numbers and positions on the sky.  Similar rules on "buying" names apply to star clusters 
and galaxies as well.  For bodies in the Solar System, special procedures for assigning 
official names apply, but in no case are commercial transactions involved.



As an international scientific organization, the IAU dissociates itself entirely from the 
commercial practice of "selling" fictitious star names or "real estate" on other planets 
or moons in the Solar System. Accordingly, the IAU maintains no list of the (several 
competing) enterprises in this business in individual countries of the world.  Readers 
wanting to contact such enterprises despite the explanations given below should search 
commercial directories in their country of origin.


In the past, certain such enterprises have suggested to customers that the IAU is somehow 
associated with, recognizes, approves, or even actively collaborates in their business. 
The IAU wishes to make it totally clear that any such claim is patently false and 
unfounded.  The IAU will appreciate being informed, with appropriate documentation, of all 
cases of illegal abuse of its name, and will pursue all documented cases by all available 
means.



Thus, like true love and many other of the best things in human life, the beauty of the 
night sky is not for sale, but is free for all to enjoy.  True, the 'gift' of a star may 
open someone's eyes to the beauty of the night sky.  This is indeed a worthy goal, but it 
does not justify deceiving people into believing that real star names can be bought like 
any other commodity.  Despite some misleading hype several companies compete in this 
business, both nationally and internationally.  And already in our own Milky Way there may 
be millions of stars with planets whose inhabitants have equal or better rights than we to 
name 'their' star, like humans have done with the Sun (which of course itself has 
different names in different languages).


[...]

Q: Who is legally responsible for naming objects in the sky?
A: The IAU is the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and 
surface features on them.  And names are not sold, but assigned according to 
internationally accepted rules.

[...]

Un saludo. Jose