Asteroid named for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny

Associated Press ^ | July 10, 2012 | BRETT ZONGKER

[Lockbar]

Someday it will be sucked into a black hole.

[jimmygrace]

My mama told me to avoid impact events from assteroids originating from the Crab Nebula...

[albie]

Astronaut Ben Dover will fly up and take a look at this here assteroid.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

The way these fag activists work — they start out wanting something little like an asteroid named after ‘em — but before long they’ll be demanding that you give ‘em Uranus.

Oh my, that is a good twist on an old joke.

[Verginius Rufus]

The usual propagandistic reporting. He wasn't fired for "being" gay but after being arrested by the police in a notorious "cruising" area in Washington, D.C. He became a very militant gay activist which is probably why he was selected by the Canadian astronomer to be honored.

The asteroid "honored" with his name seems to be a normal asteroid with an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. If they were serious about pushing the "safe sex" message, shouldn't they have named one of the Trojan asteroids after Kameny?

[longtermmemmory]

is this an official name or one of those “memory in a book” BS?

It seems not enough were and are being fired.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Wouldn’t it be ironic if someday this asteroid crashed into San Francisco?

[ozzymandus]

Beavis and Butthead would be right at home on this thread. “Assteroid!”

[Rocky]

He was bent upon honoring somebody south of the border, so to speak.

[SunkenCiv]

Frank Kameny was with another man.

Damn, that was subtle. ;’)

Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

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[Cvengr]

Asteroid named for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny,

..but why would they name an asteroid, “Flaming A**hole”?????

[Cvengr]

If he was a gay rights pioneer, does that mean he went where no man had gone before???? eeeewwwww....