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Expert Commentary
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| By Billie Rae Bates of BRBTV.com on Oct 10 2007 8:38AM |
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| For Takei, it's truly "in the stars" |
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Ever hear of "1994 GT9"? My guess is no, unless you just took an astronomy course at your local college or picked up a recent astronomy textbook at a used-book sale. Well, no matter, because this name for an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter is no longer the name for that asteroid between Mars and Jupiter! That asteroid will now affectionately be called "7307 Takei," in honor of actor George Takei, who traveled to the stars himself on the classic TV series "Star Trek."
The CBS website StarTrek.com reports that last week the Committee on Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union approved the name for the celestial object. The asteroid is about 5 miles in diameter and was discovered in 1994 by Japanese astronomers.
Only about 14,000 asteroids have been named after specific people, out of about 400,000 such bodies known to exist, the website says.
Takei, of course, was Lt. Sulu on the classic CBS series, which lives on forever in further TV incarnations, movies and all kinds of crazy merchandise (much of which is in my own home). He got a great new gig, though, last year on NBC's hit "Heroes," playing the stern father of the bouyant Hiro Nakamura.
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