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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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.


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> I know that this is mostly Fred's territory,  but a free
> database is = always a good thing.
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> Sam Clements
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