Named for the fictional character Joshua Cole, amateur astronomer and star of Arthur Preston Hankin’s 1923 novel Cole of Spyglass Mountain. A character reminiscent of Oliver Twist, Cole studied variable stars while incarcerated in a reformatory in which the boys do not use names but numbers; Cole’s is 5635. He survived one crisis after another, inlcuding a near-fatal shooting in his observatory at the moment he discovered evidence of life on Mars. (M 31024) _ _.