Asteroid 'FreddieMercury' Queen guitarist Brian May has announced that the International Astronomical Union has re-named an asteroid “FreddieMercury”, to mark what would have been the singer's 70th birthday. Previously known as Asteroid 17473, aka 1991 FM3 has a diameter of 3.435km ± 0.374 km, orbits the Sun every three years and eight months and does …
When I heard this announcement this morning I immediately heard "Don't stop me now" and it has been playing in my head all day so it came as no surprise )and was actually expected) when it started playing to accompany the shot of the asteriod moving through space.
What a wonderful honour to a great performer (he was so much more than a singer or songwriter).
".orbits the Sun every three years and eight months and does so just one degree out of the ecliptic plane."
I bet the asteroid..... wants to break freeeeeeeeee!
(and then we will have a satellite out of control....)
I will get my space suit.
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