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NASA Names an Asteroid After 'Star Trek' Actor Wil Wheaton (cnet.com)
"An asteroid going boldly through the universe now carries a new name that honors actor Will Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation," reports CNET. An anonymous reader quotes their article.
The announcement showed up on Twitter Wednesday from NASA's Ron Baalke, who describes himself as a "space explorer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory". Wheaton is in good company with other Star Trek alumni. Asteroid 7307 Takei is named for Sulu actor George Takei and 68410 Nichols gets its name from Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura. There's also asteroid 4659 Roddenberry for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
"Today, I found out that I kind of get to be in space and live right here on Earth..." Wheaton wrote on his blog Wednesday, describing his life-long interest in space exploration. "As soon as it gets dark here, I'm going to walk out into my backyard, look up into the sky, just a little above Sirius, and know that, even though I can't see it with my naked eye, it's out there, and it's named after me."
"Today, I found out that I kind of get to be in space and live right here on Earth..." Wheaton wrote on his blog Wednesday, describing his life-long interest in space exploration. "As soon as it gets dark here, I'm going to walk out into my backyard, look up into the sky, just a little above Sirius, and know that, even though I can't see it with my naked eye, it's out there, and it's named after me."
to see Sheldon's reaction!
The boy?
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But when are they going to name an asteroid after CleverNickName?
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Huh, I'd expect the asteroid to be called "Wheaton", like they did with asteroids "Takei", "Nichols", "Roddenberry", but instead they went with "Wilwheaton". I guess it's not bad, just a bit strange ;)
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NASA is saving a certain name for the best, classiest asteroid. At least I think they said "asteroid".
You are welcome on my lawn.
The very first sentence in the summary, "now carries a new name that honors actor Will Wheaton", misspells the name in the title directly above it. How hard is that one to catch?
Everything that happens in space isn't done by NASA.
NASA doesn't name asteroids, the IAU (International Astronomical Union) does. The IAU Minor Planet Center documents the names in a monthly list.
Don't tell the POTUS...otherwise he'll adopt a new naming scheme for them, involving his name.
There isn't an asteroid big enough to bear his ego.
doesn't even have an asteroid yet.
This will be great for NASA's Space Flight program! Trump will insist that big-ass "TRUMP" logo signs be placed on all of his asteroids, so he will fund NASA to build a big-ass fleet of spaceships to do the hauling!
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Mr Worf, fire at Will !!
Then the annoying little sprog dies in a hail of phaser blasts
Didn't Wheaton leave Star Trek because he didn't like the work and thought it was holding back his career? I have to admit he has made a pretty good go of his career after leaving the show (though I think he had some significant difficulties early on) but if you were naming asteroids based on Star Trek Actors I would think that there would be quite a few more who are deserving of it before you got to Wheaton (Dorn, Brooks, Auberjonois, Meaney, Visitor, etc).
Scraping the bottom of the barrel if they named something after him. Other than the Star Trek Next Generation, WHAT has he done? NOTHING.
Didn't he fling a Federation ship into an asteroid, utterly destroying it? I mean, it's a bit rich naming an asteroid after such a vandal, no?
(No wait, god damn it, that was a stellar core fragment. The depressing part is I actually remembered that. And yes I know it was necessary to buy Data enough time, blah blah blah.)
Pathetic. Naming asteroids after a fake person.
When will we see asteroid Barclay?
Don't confuse the SJWs with facts. Their little brains will explode.
Actors are the most revered figures of modern civilization. Their job is to...uh, yeah, read things others have written.
I'm no SJW. In fact, I hate them as much as you do. Still, its fun to make fun of Trump.
If I had my way every rocket that NASA launched would look like something off NASCAR. Every spot on every rocket that wasn't mission critical would be up for sponsorship. Oh the irony of watching a big ass rocket with viagra down the side rising into the Florida sky one morning.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
He used to post here, not sure if he still does or not. was big into the EFF... heck he even did some of those celebrity game shows where he donated his winnings to the EFF..
In a 40-minute speech given in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdR8uILg7TQ), in which he promised to use unilateral, executive action, the President referred to himself - “I,” “me,” and “my” - 199 times, CNS News reports. That's once every 12 seconds.
There are already 20000 named asteroids http://www.minorplanetcenter.n...
Chances are whoever you are thinking about already has one.
There are also half a million more asteroids currently waiting for a name so it's not like we're going to run out of opportunities soon.
LMGTFY
Jeez, Obama referred to himself 40-something times in a speech celebrating the Cubs winning the World Series:
Obama refers to himself 40 times during Cubs visit to White House
It may have been the Chicago Cubs’ day at the White House, but that didn’t stop President Obama from repeatedly talking about himself while honoring them.
In what he called his final ceremony at the White House, Obama delivered roughly 22 minutes of remarks about the Cubs’ World Series win, and in the process, managed to refer to himself 40 times.
Trump already has a Moth named after him called "Neopalpa donaldtrumpi". It has yellow-white "scales" on top of it's head which prompted the naming. =)
Surprisingly not mentioned in the summary above, the name of the asteroid is "391257 Wilwheaton".
See http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.c... for more details on the asteroid itself.
You do realize that he existed before "The Apprentice", right?
Is the asteroid as annoying as his character was? Does it endanger us and then somehow save us?
No, what bothers people about SJWs isn't that they call for equal rights, but that they call for special rights for some, and silencing (less rights) for others.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Maybe he posts as APK! That would explain so much.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Funny, when are you going to correct your errors instead of attacking everyone who points them out to you?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Funny, I will reiterate, but I see 0 attacks there from me, I see you bad mouthing, name calling, and making shit up, but no attacks coming from me. Perhaps you should look up the definition of attack again.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Thank you again for pointing to one of your disproven statements. I love it when you provide the examples yourself, it makes it so much easier for everyone to see the issue.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?