The asteroid formerly known as 1994 GT9, is now 7307 Takei. --"I am now a heavenly body,"-- I would love to hear him say that with that Sulu voice, that's a ringtone. The renamed asteroid is located between Mars and Jupiter.
---"It's in general considered quite an honor," Lars Lindberg Christensen, spokesman for the International Astronomical Union, said of the latest renaming, which was approved by the union's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature.
About 14,000 asteroid names have been approved by the panel, while about 165,000 asteroids have been identified and numbered, he said.---
Can you imagine the conversations 3000 years from now when these pop culture Asteroid are closer to the earth, and their names are being explained to Jr, High School kids?
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