[vsnet-chat 5521] Re: Asteroid (40409)-1999 RS2 named "Taichikato"

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Re: [vsnet-chat 5517] Asteroid (40409)-1999 RS2 named "Taichikato"

Dear Gianluca, and to all who have sent a word of celebration:

> it is with great pleasure that I annouce to the VSNET community that the
> Committee for Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the International
> Astronomical Union has finally accepted my proposal to name the asteroid
> 1999 RS2, which I discovered on 6 Sept. 1999, after Dr. Taichi Kato,
> Kyoto University. 

   Thank you very much!  It is my greatest pleasure and honor to be given
such a proposal and finally have a great nomenclature!  And congratulations
to Gianluca on your discovery of a new minor planet!  As a matter of fact,
I feel releived to know that the minor planet is not as eccentric as myself
(e > 1?) ;-)

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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