An Asteroid Has Been Named After Freddie Mercury (vice.com) 58
An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard report: Freddie Mercury, frontman of Queen and transcendent being of pure performative joy and vitality, would have been 70 years old this Monday, September 5. To celebrate the occasion and honor Mercury's enormous impact on pop culture, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially changed the name of Asteroid 17473, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, to "Freddiemercury." It's a fitting tribute to the man who exuberantly sang that he was "a shooting star leaping through the sky" in the heart-thumping rock rager "Don't Stop Me Now." Queen's lead guitarist Brian May, who also happens to be an astrophysicist with a namesake asteroid of his own, announced the news to the band's fans via YouTube on Sunday. Mercury's asteroid is about three and a half kilometers across, and has an albedo of about 0.3, which means it reflects only about 30 percent of the Sun's light. "It's a dark object, like a cinder in space, as many of these asteroids are," May said. "It's just a dot of light, but it's a very special dot of light."
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Or this one [youtube.com]?
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shouldn't it be more appropriate to rename london (you know the city in terminal decadence) after freddy. londoners would be proud and honored.
why label his name over a silent unspoilt asteroid? and not everyone in earth will be as proud and honored as londoners about him.
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"shouldn't it be more appropriate to rename london (you know the city in terminal decadence) after freddy."
Why stop at a city? And why the big bohoo about an asteroid being named after Freddy? He already has a planet named after him, forchristshake!
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I cannot now rid my mind from re-imaging Alan Partridge singing out-of-tune, "Killleeerr-QUEEEEEEEN" to himself, as he crosses a Norfolk commercial traveller's hotel lobby.
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I see a little snag in your plan...
_IF_ someone wanted to rename London after any singer - that might be just about fine...
_IF_ that someone chose Freddy Mercury over David Bowie - hmmmm - that person might be in trouble...
Sorry, The Man Who Sold The World pretty much reigns supreme in London... As much as I like Freddy Mercury - Bowie would be the better tribute...
And as for naming an asteroid after Freddy Mercury - fine by me - even the reference to a "shooting star leaping through the sky" kind of mak
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Accordingly, Flash Gordon will now be played instead of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Too much (Score:5, Funny)
He already had an entire planet named after him, why does he need an asteroid named after him too?
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Mercury doesn't actually contain much mercury so I guess they try again, and most of the rocks in our vicinity have been named already so they settled for this asteroid.
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Exactly, having two things named after him will just confuse the mail delivery no end.
I suppose people would recognize that... (Score:4, Interesting)
Freddy Mercury's real name is Farrokh Bulsara. Brian May didn't have a stage name.
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No, Freddie legally changed his name around when they started Queen.
Vibrates at 70Hz (Score:2)
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He did have a quick vibrato [youtube.com], but not *that* quick!
Finally (Score:2)
It's about time. Hopefully the asteroid contains a lot of mercury.
Great man. (Score:2)
Freddy Mercury was terrific, but he ruined mustaches for straight men everywhere, and so soon after Burt Reynolds made them acceptable again.
All in all, I'd trade Burt Reynolds straight up to get Freddie Mercury back. People forget just how great he was. Watch this 1974 live Queen video to be reminded. And he only got better after that.
https://youtu.be/T8Rfb1Jtmic [youtu.be]
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If your social circle lets the likes of FM and BR influence their impressions of your facial hair, you could find a better crowd to hang out with.
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I have a full and manly mustache, which is waxed every day. I also use lavender oil to keep it redolent.
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I have a full and manly mustache, which is waxed every day. I also use lavender oil to keep it redolent.
If that's working for you, by all means keep it up,
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It shouldn't be at the poles. It should be quite hot:
I'm burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
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This is a particularly funny in Bible humping context:
"A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this."
So why was it that Men wore Dresses back then? They couldn't even wear trousers until the bloody trouser-button was invented. Then it's as if God sayeth, "Until thouest invents Men's clothing, thou shall wear no clothing at all." So for thousands of years, men pranced around with not much more than their foreskins on, an
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Please explain to the bonobo chimpanzees and hyenas (among many others) that their homosexual behavior is unnatural.
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Never mind the Bonobos and Hyeanas. I dare anyone to try and explain it to TurboNegro !
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Not Officially (Score:1)
The Martians never agreed to this.
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The Martians never agreed to this.
It was all because of Brian May's gerrymandering to prevent Ziggy Stardust being chosen.
It's the thought that counts. (Score:3)
"Freddie, we named a planet after you. The one that is cheek to cheek with a star."
Freddie: "Allright!!"
"We also named an element after you. Also known as 'quicksilver'"
Freddie: "How fitting!"
"We also named a dark dead rock next to a bunch of other dead rocks after you."
Freddie: "Oh...you...shouldn't have."
IF it ever hit Earth (Score:2)
I wonder if it'll split into three parts, two smaller ones and a big one. Impacting with a **thump** **thump** **CRASH!**
Not the best song line-up for an asteroid... (Score:2)
... I want to break free... we will rock you...don't stop me now....now I'm here.... breakthrough... another one bites the dust...we are the champions...