More Funny Japanese Names (Part 82)

 There’s a name, that appears in several anime. Sometimes the name gets a little bit modified. For example in the anime series Detective Conan. Hattori Heizō (服部 平蔵) in the anime series Detective Conan is a Superintendent Supervisor of the police in Ōsaka (大阪). He also is the father of Hattori Heiji (服部 平次), who […]

Unique Names Day!

On March, 3rd in this year is the international Unique Names Day. It always is on the third day of the International Celebrate Your Name Week, which in 1997 got initiated by Jerry Hill, who researches names. Other days of the International Celebrate Your Name Week also are fancy holidays related to names. A name […]

Addendum to “Three Real Cases”

In a previous article, I passed on the news that a conductor got killed by a fare dodger. I referred to both persons by their alleged age. This and pseudonyms are usual in German news. The privacy of friends and relatives of the involved persons shall get protected this way. But family members of the […]

Tanga

Tanga is asteroid #1595 and also known as 1930 ME. Tanga measures twenty-seven kilometers in diameter and is of the type C. Tanga’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.64 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.11, a period of revolution of 1’571 days, and an inclination of 4.2 degrees. Tanga was discovered by […]

Krok

Krok is asteroid #3102 and also known as 1981 QA. Krok is a Near-Earth Asteroid of the Amor group and a Mars-orbit-crosser. Krok is a very slow rotator, needing around one-hundred-and-fifty hours for a full rotation in spite of a diameter of only 1.5 km and the rotation probably is retrograde. Krok’s orbit is characterized […]

The Use of the Japanese Word Osu/ Oss

Comments on not one, but two of the articles by Jesse Enkamp irritate me. Some people seem to use the Japanese word osu/ oss everywhere and even perceive it as a sign of paying respect, while other people report that some old Japanese get offended by this word. Then there of course are women, who […]

Teta and Kazi

Teta is asteroid #15374 and also known as 1997 BG. Teta is a bright asteroid of the type E and a member of the Hirayama-family Hungaria. Teta’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 1.99 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.16, a period of revolution of 1’026 days, and an inclination of 32.4 degrees. […]

Three Real Cases

Few weeks ago, an allegedly thirty-six years old conductor in a train a short way after Landstuhl Station in Kaiserslautern County, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany wanted to inspect the ticket of an allegedly twenty-six years old passenger, who’s a citizen of Greece. But this passenger had no ticket. So the conductor wanted to make the passenger leave […]

Tinker

Tinker is asteroid #22830 and is also known as 1999 RW52. Tinker measures 7.8 km in diameter. Tinker’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.07 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.20, a period of revolution of 1’962 days, and an inclination of 1.7 degrees. Tinker was discovered during the course of the Lincoln […]