Talk:11948 Justinehénin

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The source calls it Justinehenin at the top, which is likely do to restrictions on special characters. Lower down it calls it Justinehénin, which is probably the correct name, or they wouldn't bother with the accent at all. -Oreo Priest ^talk 05:21, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, her name was Henin without the accent after all. I've emailed the JPL asking them to fix the ambiguity. -Oreo Priest ^talk 05:56, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently my original reasoning was correct. The JPL emailed me back and said that Justinehénin is the correct name. From the email:

To be clear, the Minor Planet Center is responsible for all asteroid names and related citations, not JPL/NASA. The reason there is not any accent in the name at the top of the page is that such notation is not part of the ASCII character set used in our (or the MPC's) databases. The accents are only published in the printed Minor Planet Circulars and on our web page under the name citation section.

The citation appeared in the 2003-Sep-10 batch of Minor Planet Circulars. The official name should be that with the accents, as published by the MPC.

I think that ought to clear it up. -Oreo Priest ^talk 01:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]