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Nature 406, 819 (24 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35022735
Astronomers reveal the secrets of the name game
Steve Nadis
Perhaps it was inevitable. Features on the surface of Eros, the near-Earth asteroid now being observed by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, have officially been given the names of famous lovers in myth and literature, such as Orpheus and Eurydice, Don Juan, Cupid and Lolita.
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