Congratulations Phil Plait.

You deserve this honour very much & its a name that will stay for ever. As long as there are humans, your name will live on with the asteroid.

Well done, you deserve it.

JPL Orbital diagram & elements here. Apparently the asteroid is one kilometre in diameter.

Also I will see if I can get a feature named for you perhaps on Mercury or one of the Saturn moons, as more craters' hills, etc are found & will need naming. I often communicate with JPL & APL, so I will put a word in.

Andrew Brown.

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"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.