It was named (following a suggestion from Robert H. McNaught) after Joseph Priestley, as co-discoverer of the element oxygen, because green emission in the aurora (astronomy), due to atomic oxygen, occurs at a wavelength of 5577 angstroms (557.7 nanometers).
Forsterite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (space group Pbnm) with cell parameters a 4.75 Å (0.475 nm), b 10.20 Å (1.020 nm) and c 5.98 Å (0.598 nm).
Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.
The song is frequently mentioned in John Updike's 1988 novel Rabbit at Rest as a favorite childhood song of the protagonist, Pennsylvania native Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.