I distinctly remember the conversation where Dave blurted out that he had been talking with a friend about the naming issue and the nomenclature "sprite" was suggested. Having just seen A Midsummer Night's Dream myself, I thought it was a great idea. The ephemeral nature of the "sprite" certainly justified the name ...though they were now no longer creatures of the researcher's over-heated imagination. (The late Marx Brook commented when we first presented our video at the AGU: "Oh, you are just seeing reflections in the window!" which was retracted as soon as we pointed out the cameras were outside during the observations.)
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