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Title: Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury
Post by: triangleforge on September 06, 2016, 02:41:12 PM
That an asteroid was named for Freddie Mercury & announced on what would have been his seventieth birthday is only the second best part of this story, as reported in the New York Times.

http://nyti.ms/2ckYy83 (http://nyti.ms/2ckYy83)

The best part? That it was "was announced on Sunday in a YouTube video by Brian May, the former Queen guitarist who became an astrophysicist after the band broke up."

That right there is one hell of a résumé.

Brian May announces Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury 04/09/2016 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAeGv7DE5OM#)
Title: Re: Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury
Post by: kopfjäger on September 06, 2016, 03:02:23 PM
Very cool.  8)
Title: Re: Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury
Post by: ducpainter on September 06, 2016, 03:12:20 PM
Somewhat related... ;D

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=71455.0 (http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=71455.0)
Title: Re: Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury
Post by: Slide Panda on September 07, 2016, 11:33:42 AM
nice
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