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Originally posted by Seimei:
I would not pay money to arbitrarily name an asteroid and disagree with the practice. Furthermore I see that website has no credentials, no affiliation with the International Astronomical Union on the sell you a name page but if you want to buy a passport to Mercury or citizenship in space then on that page they tout the IAU
Rather appalling that people fall for that
crap, basically you would be paying money for a piece of paper or a plaque to put on your wall that means nothing.
here > http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/HowNamed.html
http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/contests/osirisrex/guidelines.html