• @Balthazar
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      29 days ago

      Is this Jeremy Kubica, noted asteroid finder?!

  • @Balthazar
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    -69 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      98 days ago

      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).