{"id":249,"date":"2010-04-03T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T02:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-04-03T19:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T02:08:25","slug":"conlangs-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Conlangs in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p54163.typo3server.info\/230.0.html?&#038;L=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yrj\u00c3\u00b6 V\u00c3\u00a4is\u00c3\u00a4l\u00c3\u00a4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.utu.fi\/tuorla\/new\/yv_30.jpg\" title=\"Yrj\u00c3\u00b6 V\u00c3\u00a4is\u00c3\u00a4l\u00c3\u00a4\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>No, this post is not about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kli.org\">Klingon<\/a> or <a href=\"av\/navi.html\">Na&#39;vi<\/a>. The Conlanging Librarian recently discovered that Esperanto appears to be the first conlang in space. The Finnish astronomer and physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yrj%C3%B6_V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4\">Yrj&#246; V&#228;is&#228;l&#228;<\/a> discovered and named two asteroids: <a href=\"http:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1421+Esperanto\">1421 Esperanto<\/a> on March 18, 1936, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/sbdb.cgi#top\">1462 Zamenhof<\/a> on Feb. 6, 1938. V&#228;is&#228;l&#228;, in addition to being a distinguished astronomer, was also an enthusiastic advocate of Esperanto. He himself is commemorated by having a <a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.arc.nasa.gov\/printerready\/science\/geography_items\/carters\/craters_v.html\">crater<\/a> named after him on the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this post is not about Klingon or Na&#39;vi. The Conlanging Librarian recently discovered that Esperanto appears to be the first conlang in space. The Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrj&#246; V&#228;is&#228;l&#228; discovered and named two asteroids: 1421 Esperanto on March 18, 1936, and 1462 Zamenhof on Feb. 6, 1938. V&#228;is&#228;l&#228;, in addition to being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[66,68,65,67,69],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-asteroids","tag-astronomy","tag-craters","tag-esperanto","tag-vaisala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}