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Blue Collar Scientist: Asteroids Named For PZ Myers, Phil Plait, Rebecca Watson, Michael Stackpole

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Something will probably change it's trajectory and cause it to collide with earth. And Phil will forever be known as the cause of a natural disaster.

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I think it would rock to have the asteroid that destroys civilization as we know it named after you.

Let's hope not. Then the rabid cultists will come after us for being Phil's friends.

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Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Don't worry, the Illuminati will protect you.

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There are no Illuminati. Well, unless you live in a Tomb Raider movie.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Or National treasure.

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"That 165347 Philplait is one baaad aster-"

"Shut yo' mouth!"

"But I'm talkin' 'bout Phil!"

"We can dig it!"

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"Time travel gives me a headache." - Capt. Kathryn Janeway

Is that One-Six-Five-Three-Four-Seven, or 165,347? When spoken aloud.

Philplait is in a near 42:13 resonance with Jupiter, so it makes a cool pattern in a frame rotated with Jupiter's period.
Yellow (center): Sun
Gray: Mercury
White: Venus
Blue/Gray: Earth & Moon
Orange: Mars
Green: Philplait
Magenta: Jupiter (tracing an oval around its average position in a rotating frame designed to keep it still)

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Cool! It looks like Philplait's orbit is some sort of woven something!

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Welcome to the club Phil!

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Derek Colanduno
host - skepticality
http://www.skepticality.com/

Nice!

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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.

I know the BA can say that, but can we?

Congratulations, Phil Plait. Now everyone can look up to you ...

Well deserved.

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John F. Kennedy

Comedic gold!

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song