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THIS! The sentiment is nice, but try to find something a little more long-lived. I hear there are some websites that will allow you to name a star in her honor. Now that would be a tribute, indeed.

De Beers will be funding NASA from now on!

On the contrary. I think this will blow the de Beers cartel wide open, assuming that a FTL mining vessel could be equipped.

There's one way to find out.

De Beers, has it been registered?

Why bother with a crummy rust ball when I can have a whole star named after me??!!

So does this mean that the big two-for-one sale at http://www.starregistry.com/ will have to be rethought?

There is many scams like this. International Star Registry is another scam that claims to name a star for you. Unforunately, only the International Astronomical Union names planetary bodies.

You moron, did you really believe you could buy and develop land on the moon?

If you were even halfway serious about buying and developing on interstellar property, you would have at least bought properties from these guys. Buying moon land.. what a joke.

http://www.starregistry.com/ ?

Actually I want them to throw a probe at one of the stars I recently bought and
named.
If a comet is worth $300 million, and it's not even her property, surely a star that I own an interest in is worth a cool billion.

I was just thinking about that, but soon ran across this, The International Astronomical Union, which "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. "

Man, is that Star Registry stuff the biggest load of crap, or what!

"Because these star names are copyrighted with their telescopic coordinates in the book, "Your Place in the Cosmos," future generations may identify the star name in the directory and, using a telescope, locate the actual star in the sky."

We could ALL create our own star registry and spend the $20 to officially register copyright on it. I think I'll call mine "The One True Universal Star Registry" and name all the best stars after myself.

...I will least you any requested domain name that meet my approval for the period 2700-2800 AD inclusive for just $229.95. That's less than $2.28 per year! And, of course, what with inflation, who knows what GoDaddy may be charging by then?

I will not actually register the domain names now, of course. I will only accept domain names I think are unlikely to get taken. As the year 2700 approaches I, or, um, rather, my company, will research the status of your domain name and either register it or buy it from whomever owns it.

And for just $108 more, I'll throw in a free Star Registration. That's right, I'll have the International Star Registry name a star after your URL! That... almost like... getting two registrations for the price of one!

But wait, there's more. Act now and also get a 100% valid title deed for one square inch of land zoned residential on planet Smegma, I mean Sedna. Now how much would you pay?

It's up to $9,700 now! Is this an exercise in copyrights or stupidity?

...for the International Star Registry to sell!

The perfect Father's Day gift or any time gift for that fact to a geek would be to name a star after them... this would also be a good valentines present to some chick... lol!

Go Here to buy a star... who knows, it could even have it's own earth2... you would own it!

• Poor weather (especially in the North East) means that you can't observer frequently enough to have good odds of being the first one to see something because you will be clouded out far too often. Truly serious comet hunters move to Arizona to have enought clear skys to have good odds.
• Today most comets are found by professional searches such as linear with bigger scopes. That doesn't leave much left for amateurs
• Equipement maybe affordable for SillyValley stock holders but not for the masses out there. Min. req. these days for comet hunting is about a 20" or 22" obsession scope. That's the trend in recent amateur discovery such as comet Petriew
• to find stuff that faint you need to be several hours out of town to get a dark enough sky becuase you work in a big town to affoard all the equipement. Avoiding light pollution is essential to see stuff that faint so you can't do it often enough

So SOHO is actually a playing field leveler in that sense and makes comet discovery more accessible than before. Sure the is less glory that doing it the old fashion way. It's free, always good weather, timely data. It's also the only legitimate way to get your name in the heavens instead of buying stars which is nothing more than a scam IMHO. So, sure, it's sure a much bigger kick to find one at the eyepiece but a SOHO one still counts in my book.

Have a star named after them. That way they can look up and say, see that one's from IBM, that one from Intel....