Talk:Upsilon Carinae

Crappy lie

From notorious star name inventor User:Richontaban aka 168.223.11.X:

Vathorz Prior, a name of Old Norse-Latin origin

Old Norse? When then was the name invented? Old Norse was spoken from 800 to 1200, a time when nobody from Scandinavia traveled far south enough to even see Carina constellation. The lie is as ridiculous as the modern medical term Biceps used for Gamma Herculis. I can for sure say that there were never such a word as "Vathorz" in Old Norse, since 'z' and 'o' in unstressed position weren't used in Old Norse, and there were never such a stem as vathor-. I'm going to clean up some more of his (her?) stinking crap soon. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 21:11, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Heh, yes I'm finding quite a bit of creative OR in some of these star articles. Giant stars with radii smaller than the Sun, and so forth. We just need to start adding more inline citations and get this stuff verified. Regards, RJH (talk) 16:52, 27 January 2012 (UTC)