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[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

> I'm not sure their search engine works very well.  I did a search on
> what should have been the entire database for "asteroid", and the
> earliest returned citation was 1977 for the astronomical sense (1857 for
> the starfish sense), but I was able to find (by browsing) an article
> from 1807 with the word.

When one searches the same material on JSTOR, one gets a first use of
1802.

Fred


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