TIL: YouTuber Scott Manley has an asteroid/minor planet named after him: 33434 Scottmanley
TIL: YouTuber Scott Manley has an asteroid/minor planet named after him: 33434 Scottmanley
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I love Scott and his content, but the idea of naming asteroids is stupid vanity. Give them a number and be done with it, like every other astronomical object.
Lots of astronomical objects have names, but somehow it's asteroids and maybe craters that really got the naming hype, there are hundreds of them named after scientists, poets, the discoverer's teacher, you name it. It's a nice custom.
Disclaimer: I might be slightly biased, as I proposed my wife with naming one of them (asteroid, I mean).
Are you sure it wasn't a star and is your wife's name Claire Cooper, by any chance? https://youtu.be/JNRPa6Mmqm8
I checked it, it's not :)