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A short historical introduction to the classical naming of stars and extrasolar planets is given.
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I would like to thank M. Geffert (Bonn) for trying to find the very first use of the variable star notation by Argelander.
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Hessman, F.V. (2018). The Naming of Extrasolar Planets. In: Deeg, H., Belmonte, J. (eds) Handbook of Exoplanets . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7_193
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