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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!
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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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.
Didn't Wheaton leave Star Trek because he didn't like the work and thought it was holding back his career?
He apologized for that at a convention with most of the TNG cast there; it's on Youtube somewhere. And it's not like his concerns were entirely ungrounded given the hatred his character generated (which came as a surprise to me when I found out, perhaps because I was much younger than he was when I first watched TNG.)
When will we see asteroid Barclay?
He's a sanctimonious virtue signaling male feminist arse. He talks about his mental illness which would be great but then is all over a movement that declares that men don't have any problems even though white men were 70% of suicides in 2014.