"This will interest your man Nicholson, Channing," the Secretary said, "although it isn't actually in our field. If he's ever in the neighborhood, he might investigate, though."
"What will interest him? Say, where is Nicholson, anyway? Seems to me I sent him someplace. Well, he'll turn up."
"Nothing much, really. It seems a star six hundred light years galactic north of Deneb disappeared. Since it didn't have any planets, I suppose it really doesn't matter."
"I'll try to remember and tell Nick," said Channing. "Did the star have a name or just a catalogue number?"
"They named it after the man who discovered it with the new Luna telescope. Professor Targoff. It's called Targoff's Star."