It's a beautiful day in the galaxy....

[Lucky Bob]

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=121391

[RogueMartian]

LOL!

That's so cool.

[Rune]

That's a nice touch, makes you wonder why this doesn't happen more often, there are an awful lot of objects floating about out there simply labelled by number ... on the other hand it could get taken to Hollywood extremes though I guess :p

[Elven Moon]

Awww... that's so sweet. It shouldn't be a given to just anyone, though. Think of all the celebrities fighting over floating rocks :P

[Barb Gordon]

aww, that's so sweet! The galaxy just became a much more cheerful place.

~Barb

[Daniel P]

Cool. Mister Rodgers was a great guy, a celebrity who actually deserves something like this.

[EightOh]

That's cool. It actually brought a smile to my face. :)

[Patrick Bateman]

lol, I thought it was kinda cheesy, myself. :p

[Outlander00]

It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood, now! :D

Seriously, thats a rather gracious thing to do... The man deserves whatever recognition he gets.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

:) Awwww....

Well, if anyone deserved the honor of having an asteroid named after him, Mr. Rogers sure did. I like the idea of the planetarium, too.

[jeffrey 228]

That is cool and very well educate and remember Mr. Rogers in a way that Space is also known as a neiborhood too, and that is the first time an astroid is remembered for Mr. Rogers, and I respect that.

[James]

Unfamilar with the gentleman in question *ignorant Brit*.. however any amusement this article offered was dispelled by the most annoying popup I have yet to encounter.. good lord that was annoying..

[Nick Biped]

Hey, what a cool idea! I think Mr. Rogers has earned this sort of honour.

I hope this doesn't become too common-place, though. I'm not too keen on having space full of asteroids with names like Paulyshore or Carrottop. :p

[TimTwoFace]

That's a nice thing to do. You're right, though - why doesn't this happen more often?

Then again, there ARE places you can go to in order to get stars and such named after you - you just don't hear about famous people getting involved. :)

-Tim

[Squall]

That's a nice thing to do. You're right, though - why doesn't this happen more often?

Then again, there ARE places you can go to in order to get stars and such named after you - you just don't hear about famous people getting involved. :)

-Tim

Well, I don't see what the big deal is as far as the asteroid goes. There are enough stars, comets, planets, and asteroids to name about 100 of each after every person, place, and thing on the Earth, and still have plenty of objects and phenomenon left over to name.

Besides, if this asteroid one day hits the Earth and destroys a city or something, what would it do to his good name then? {In a 2100 World History Book: 2063 began with a tragedy of tragedies. On January 10, 2063, at about 10:37 am, the asteroid known by the name "Fred Rogers" made landfall on Earth, destroying Ankara, the capital of Turkey, as well as causing regionwide destruction from western Greece to northern Russia to central Iraq. Earthquakes and tremors were felt as far away as France, Nigeria, and China. Even the US and Canada experienced minor tremors which set off larger earthquakes later in those 'Ring of Fire' zones. The UN and Arab League estimated the death toll to be near 10 million, though this number may never fully be realized.) :(

Now, as for naming a planetarium after him... that's cool and he does deserve the credit. SJJ, Fred Rogers was a pioneer of using TV for children's education in the U.S. He had a daily kids' TV show (live action) which aired in the US from the 1960s to the 1990s. His constant lobbying of Congress was also one of the chief reasons that PBS never lost its federal funding.

I can remember waking up in the mornings to Mr. Rogers as a little kid. He will be missed.

[Dante Bunny]

:) Awwww....

Well, if anyone deserved the honor of having an asteroid named after him, Mr. Rogers sure did. I like the idea of the planetarium, too.


Giving the Asteroid to his honor, I must say this will be going down in history and science books later on. :)