15 minutes of fame

Jan. 18th, 2011 02:21 pm
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It appears I am going to be having an asteriod named after me.
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Date: 2011-01-18 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sihaya09.livejournal.com
Neat!

Date: 2011-01-18 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grail76.livejournal.com
Well, cool.

Date: 2011-01-18 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com
Congratulations!
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Date: 2011-01-18 08:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gsh
It hits Thursday.











JUST KIDDING!

Date: 2011-01-18 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nminusone.livejournal.com
Too late, I already told Michael Bay that it's heading right for us!

Date: 2011-01-18 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] recalcitranttoy.livejournal.com
SUPER COOL!!!

Date: 2011-01-18 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamarinne.livejournal.com
Nifty!

Date: 2011-01-18 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] easy-living.livejournal.com
How cool! Are you going to go for your full name, or just your first name? As of 12/3/10 there doesn't seem to be an asteroid that's just called Greg...

I was amused, however, to see that there are asteroids called Potato, Arthurdent and TARDIS.

Date: 2011-01-18 08:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gsh
I don't know if it will be firstnamelastname or just lastname.

I knew about Arthurdent and Tardis.

I did not know about Potato, I'll bet lots of time is spent on wondering how to pronounce it.

Date: 2011-01-18 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] easy-living.livejournal.com
Since apparently there are asteroids called Okhotsymskij, Zdvyzhensk and Eyjafjallajokull. I think Potato is probably not at the top of the pronunciation worries, LOL.

Wikipedia calls it a "minor planet", but since even Pluto isn't a planet these days I'm guessing that's rather like calling Gaithersburg "North Potomac".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88705_Potato



Date: 2011-01-18 08:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] melebeth
DUDE!

Date: 2011-01-18 08:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] reedrover
That's so cool! Did you discover it, or what?

Date: 2011-01-18 08:47 pm (UTC)
gsh: (Default)
From: [personal profile] gsh
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (which I worked on) has discovered about 270 asteriods. The list of authors is within about 10% of that, so each author on the first data paper has been given the option of having an asteriod named after them.

Date: 2011-01-18 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilwolfgirl22.livejournal.com
That's seriously cool! But it'd better not cause any chaos on this rock ;)

Date: 2011-01-18 09:22 pm (UTC)
gsh: (Default)
From: [personal profile] gsh
Would *I* cause chaos on this rock?

Date: 2011-01-18 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beaq.livejournal.com
Tra!

Date: 2011-01-18 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com
nice!

Date: 2011-01-18 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aelf.livejournal.com
How cool!

Date: 2011-01-19 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] make-your-move.livejournal.com
Spiffy!

Date: 2011-01-19 03:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com
That is super awesome :)

Date: 2011-01-19 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whitebird.livejournal.com
They're naming an asteroid, "Hey, You!"? Cool!

Congratulations! :)

Congrats!

Date: 2011-01-19 07:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] drwex
That's a neat honor.

Date: 2011-01-19 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galestorm.livejournal.com
Cool!

Date: 2011-01-20 10:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fairion.livejournal.com
Woohoo!!That is very neat. Congratulations.
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