They are then given a catalogue number (Bagehot's shows that it was the 2, 901st asteroid to be identified formally).

ECONOMIST: Today we have naming of parts

And since the number of objects in the catalogue is fast approaching 10, 000, he advocates making Pluto the first five-figure minor planet.

ECONOMIST: Pluto out in the cold

The most volumes listed in any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a database of titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around the world.

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