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  1. What names are acceptable?There are prohibitions against suggesting names of individuals, places or events with military or political connections unless at least 100 years have passed since the individual died or the event occurred. This means that names from the 20th century's two World Wars are not yet acceptable. Names that are offensive are also disallowed.Other than those restrictions, almost any other type of name is acceptable.
    Names should not be too similar to an existing name. In order to check whether your proposed name (or one very similar) has been used already, consult the the alphabetical list of minor-planet names and use your browser's 'Find' facility.
    Names should preferably be one word. For individuals, use the surname (family name) if possible. If you run two or more parts of a individual's name together to make the name, do not use mid-word capitalization. Proposers should remember that names of minor planets are not the same as the names of people. Ideally, if a name is to honor a person, it should simply "suggest" that person, in a manner that is as unobtrusive as possible.
    Please remember that the purpose of naming minor planets is for identification, not commemoration.
    <<<(From:http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/Astrometry.html#nametype)>>>
  2. How do I write the citation and submit the name?Each new name proposal from a discoverer of a numbered minor planet is accompanied by a brief citation, describing why the particular name is being bestowed. Citations must be brief and to the point. A four-line limit (as printed in the MPCs) on the body of each citation has been imposed. Avoid making political, controversial or posturing statements in the citation.Note that the CSBN reserves the right to edit the citation for publication.
    There is a special format for submitting names. This format is necessary to expedite processing of the proposal. The first line consist of an "index entry" containing the proposed name, the number of the object to which the name is to be applied and a very short summary of the citation. Then follows a blank line. Then the citation in the form that it will appear in the MPCs. Single name proposals or batches of proposals must be e-mailed to mpc@cfa.harvard.edu.
    The index line can extend to column 80, but the other lines must not go beyond column 78. Lines must have ragged-right margins (i.e, do not right-justify the lines), neither should words be hyphenated across line breaks. Submitted files must be plain ASCII: do not send any kind of WP/DTP/HTML file! Diacritical marks must be indicated in the TeX format.
    This is best illustrated with a couple of examples from the batch of names in the 2000 Jan. 24 batch of MPCs (the column ruler at the top is simply to show you where the entries in the index line fall: e.g., the index description begins in column 31 and the number ends in column 27):
             1         2         3         4         5         6         7         812345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890Flagsymphony           6582   Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra(6582) Flagsymphony = 1981 VS     Discovered 1985 Nov. 5 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station ofthe Lowell Observatory.     The Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 50th season in1999-2000.  It is considered by many to be the best symphony orchestra ina small community in the U.S.A.Baton Rouge           11739   Louisiana state capital(11739) Baton Rouge = 1998 SG27     Discovered 1998 Sept. 25 by W. R. Cooney, Jr. and M. Collier at BatonRouge.     Baton Rouge, the Louisiana state capital, is located on the banks ofthe Mississippi river and derives its name, French for ``red stick'', froman Indian marker at the site seen by a French expedition in 1699.  Thecity is home to the Highland Road Park Observatory, where this minor planetwas discovered.When printed in the MPCs the example citations above took up 2.2 and 3.8 lines, respectively.It there are multiple names being proposed at the same time, each index-citation block is separated from other blocks by a blank line, as in the example above.
    Submitted citations are subject to editing.