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7645 · Pons Asteroid · Robinhood Chain

The Register of Comets

kept by the subscribers to 7645, in which every discovery is permanent and every name has a price

A purchase of 7645 is entered in this register as the discovery of a comet. Each discovery receives a number and its discoverer's address, which no later circumstance can amend. The name of a comet is another matter. Any subscriber may, on payment of the fee stated against it, strike the name at present affixed and enter their own; the fee is paid, in the greater part, to the party whose name is struck; it advances by one quarter at each reattribution; and a name newly entered may not be disturbed for six hours. Subscribers are reminded that Mr. Pons discovered the comet which all the world now calls Encke's.

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Catalogue of Comets

with the names at present affixed to them

  1. 001ENCKE RATdisc. nom. never renamed
  2. 002OPEN THE SKYdisc. nom. never renamed
  3. 003COMET OF LORDSdisc. nom. never renamed
  4. 004NO REFUNDSdisc. nom. renamed 1 time
  5. 005TOP SIGNALdisc. nom. never renamed
  6. 006HELD SINCE DAWNdisc. nom. never renamed
  7. 007DOORKEEPERdisc. nom. never renamed
  8. 008ENCKE RATdisc. nom. renamed 3 times
  9. 009SIRdisc. nom. never renamed
  10. 010LAMPLIGHTdisc. nom. never renamed
  11. 011FIRST WATCHdisc. nom. never renamed
  12. 012GLIZZY MAJOR☞disc. nom. renamed 3 times

☞ marks an entry in which the reader is a party. Addresses are given abridged; touch one to copy it entire.

Appendix

remarks upon the conduct of subscribers

I.The object most contested

Comet No. 028, at present called QUIET PART, has had its name struck and re-entered 6 times. It was discovered by , a fact no amount of money has been able to alter. The fee for the next attempt on the name stands at 953.67 7645.

II.Subscribers most given to the affixing of names

  1. 1.5 names, 1,891.60 7645
  2. 2.4 names, 1,300.78 7645
  3. 3.3 names, 953.12 7645
  4. 4.3 names, 1,093.75 7645
  5. 5.2 names, 500 7645

III.Subscribers most frequently dispossessed

  1. 1.4 times, consoled with 1,250.78 7645
  2. 2.4 times, consoled with 962.50 7645
  3. 3.4 times, consoled with 1,138.28 7645
  4. 4.3 times, consoled with 825 7645
  5. 5.3 times, consoled with 1,250.97 7645

Dispossession is recorded here as a distinction. Every subscriber in Table III has been paid, several times over, for holding a name somebody else wanted more.

The Plate

the engraving issued for a comet when it is shared abroad