READERS looking up the paper “On the revision of radiometric albedos and diameters of asteroids” () may be puzzled to find the authors listed as Alan W. Harris and Alan W. Harris. The natural suspicion that this is a typo and that these are one and the same person is quickly dispelled by a footnote on the first page, which states: “Since the authors’ contributions to this work were equal, the order listed is alphabetical.” Compounding the possibility of confusion, they add: “And yes, the middle names are both ‘William’ “.
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