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Asteroid Arthurdent???
Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Started conversation May 18, 2001
I have just read this on the ABC Australia site - can you confirm??
I hope it is true - great tribute to DNA
Sci fi writer immortalised in space
An international space agency has named an asteroid Arthurdent, after a character from science fiction writer Douglas Adams' best-known work, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The Massachusetts-based Minor Planet Centre, a branch of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), made the announcement in an e-mail circular, the same day the British author died.
Arthur Dent, one of its central characters, is a mild-mannered Englishman who is rescued from Earth seconds before it is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
The asteroid's name was proposed by Felix Hormuth, an astronomer at Germany's Starkenburg Observatory, which spotted the space rock on February 7, 1998.
One of the Center's roles is to assign names to new asteroids, comets and other orbiting rocks.
Adams died in Santa Barbara, California, on the weekend after a heart attack.
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Asteroid Arthurdent???
Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted May 18, 2001
No need to reply - I just got confirmation from Peta - thanks for your time .....
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