Product To Avoid: Star Registry Services

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This one makes me sad.  Apparently the star registry services are all scams.  Surely you’ve gotten a flyer in the mail before (maybe even gotten a star named after you).  The services, for a nominal fee ($100.00 or more), name the star after you and put the name on a registry.  A lot of people get them to remember a loved one.  It’s all fake!  From MSN:

“Here’s the problem: Stars are named by the International Astronomical Union — and they aren’t selling. Names for stars (and most are given numbers) are assigned according to the internationally accepted rules of the IAU. Anyone else who claims to be able to name stars has no more legal standing than your neighbor’s Rottweiler. When they say your star is going into a “registry,” they mean whatever registry they made up — not the official catalog that is kept by the IAU and used by all astronomers.

According to the IAU’s Web site, “such ‘names’ have no formal or official validity whatever. Like true love and many of the other best things in human life, the beauty of the night sky is not for sale, but is free for all to enjoy.”"

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