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Freddie Mercury Receives Namesake Asteroid on 70th Birthday
Rolling Stone ^
| 9/5/16
| Daniel Kreps
Posted on 09/05/2016 5:39:45 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
To mark what would have been Freddie Mercury's 70th birthday, Queen guitarist and actual astrophysicist Brian May announced that an asteroid orbiting around Mars and Jupiter has been named after the singer.
..."Where is Freddie’s Asteroid? It's in the main Asteroid Belt, out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and is about 3 and a half km across," May continued. "It's like a cinder in space as many of these asteroids are," said May. "You need a pretty decent telescope to see it. It’s just a dot of light but it’s a very special dot of light and maybe one day we'll get there."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: music; queen; rock; space
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To: SoFloFreeper
Insert Uranus joke here
To: SoFloFreeper
Why does Freddy need an asteroid when Mercury has had a planet his whole life?
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:45:04 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: SoFloFreeper
I’ll bet Freddie had to deal with asteroids fairly often.
To: Pollster1
Why didn’t they call it Farrokh Bulsara asteroid?
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:48:13 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Only idiot liberals believe that disarming the sheep makes them safe from the wolves.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:49:31 PM PDT
by
proust
(Trump / Pence 2016!)
To: SoFloFreeper
Freddie’s Assteroid? really?
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:49:51 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Donglalinger
Insert Uranus...no... there are depths that even I will not descend to...
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:53:21 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Pollster1
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:56:03 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
To: Donglalinger
Insert Uranus joke hereWhen it cums to Freddie Mercury, Insert Uranus is the right terminology.
Appropriate he's getting a namesake AssTeroid
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:58:30 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: Pollster1
Actually, I believe the craters on Mercury are named for famous artists from various disciplines, and there is a movement going out there to name one of the craters “Freddie”, so the designated place name would be: “Freddie, Mercury”.
True.
To: Blood of Tyrants
Will there also be one named “Barry Soetoro” in going with a similar theme?
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posted on
09/05/2016 5:58:57 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: SoFloFreeper
Queen guitarist and actual astrophysicist Brian May announced that an asteroid orbiting around Mars and Jupiter has been named after the singer. Couldn't he find an assteroid orbiting around Uranus (or Hisanus or anybody's anus?)
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:01:14 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: SoFloFreeper
Because they could hardly name a comet “Butthumper Poofter Pudsmoke.”
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:04:48 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: IronJack
Because they could hardly name a comet “Butthumper Poofter Pudsmoke."
Dahaha. I almost spit my jack & coke all over my new laptop!
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:10:18 PM PDT
by
farming pharmer
(www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
To: Donglalinger
Insert Uranus joke here
You asked for it. From the article...
"Where is Freddie’s Asteroid?"... somewhere near Uranus?
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:14:34 PM PDT
by
Eisenhower Republican
(Supervillains for Trump: "Because evil pays better!")
To: SoFloFreeper
"I'm just a poor boy
nobody loves me."
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:27:37 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Will it be ‘full of AIDS’? (Old Internet meme.)
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:27:43 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:31:34 PM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
To: mountn man
Doesn’t make him any less of a great singer and songwriter and performer.
I liked him. Still do.
Dont know that if I weighted 110 pounds and was dying if I would say “#### it, let’d do it” and then belt out the great song “The Show Must Go On”
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posted on
09/05/2016 6:38:14 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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