Sale of Star Names
There are a number of companies that sell naming rights to obscure stars for commemorative purposes. These sales of star names are unrelated to the official designations made by the IAU and the names are not recognised by any international scientific or registration body. As a result a single star can potentially be named independently by multiple companies, or multiple times by the same company.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)