15 minutes of fame

[gsh]

It appears I am going to be having an asteriod named after me.

Comments

[sihaya09.livejournal.com]

Neat!

[grail76.livejournal.com]

Well, cool.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[recalcitranttoy.livejournal.com]

SUPER COOL!!!

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

Nifty!

[gsh]

It hits Thursday.











JUST KIDDING!

[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.

[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.

[melebeth]

DUDE!

[reedrover]

That's so cool! Did you discover it, or what?

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

Too late, I already told Michael Bay that it's heading right for us!

[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.

[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

[lilwolfgirl22.livejournal.com]

That's seriously cool! But it'd better not cause any chaos on this rock ;)

[gsh]

Would *I* cause chaos on this rock?

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Tra!

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

nice!

[aelf.livejournal.com]

How cool!

[make-your-move.livejournal.com]

Spiffy!

[youvebeenpixied.livejournal.com]

That is super awesome :)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

They're naming an asteroid, "Hey, You!"? Cool!

Congratulations! :)

Congrats!

[drwex]

That's a neat honor.

[galestorm.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[fairion.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!!That is very neat. Congratulations.