Takei Gets His Own Asteroid
Star Trek and Heroes star George Takei has been honored with his very own
asteroid. A huge rock floating around between Mars and Jupiter has been
renamed 7307 Takei. Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek
television series, says, "I am now a heavenly body. It (the honor) came out
of the clear, blue sky - just like an asteroid." The asteroid, which was
discovered by two Japanese astronomers in 1994, was formerly known as 1994
GT9. The renaming has been approved by officials at the International
Astronomical Union's Committee On Small Body Nomenclature.
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Chad Bryant
www.chadbryant.net
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
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