Minor Planet 5190 has been officially name Fry by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) . The name is to honor the greatactor , comedianandquiz show hostStephen Fry , rather than theFuturama hero , although we suspect that the great man would n’t object to sharing the honor .
The IAU announced the appointment in itsmonthly bulletin . More than 100 other minor planet were named at the same clip , recognizing leading luminance from fields as divers as Swedish rock medicine ( 12671 Thornqvist ) , German playing ( 241475 Martinagedeck ) and save Hungarian codices from destruction ( 253412 Raskaylea ) .
The co - founders of a company dedicated to helping satellite to avoid collision with space junk have been recognized as well , with 257336 Noeliasanchez and 257371 Miguelbello .
Sometimes it helps to have an astronomer in the family . Anne Marie Yvonne Maruy Van Der Donckt is a computer programmer and scuba diver , but benefited from being the babe of one of the finders of 27110 Annemaryvonne . At four days sometime Hauke Christoph Meyer probably has n’t achieved much at all , other than being suffer to the discoverer of 302652 Hauke .
In a lesson to educators everywhere , thirty lump of space careen now bear the names of teachers who mentor entrants in the Intel Science Talent Search , while many others are named after winners in various section of the same competition .
You do n’t even need to be human , with 259387 Atauta honoring a small Spanish town know for its dour skies and good wine-coloured .
The process of give a name to an asteroidcan take decennary . For representative 5190 Fry was discovered in 1990 by fertile minor planet finders S. Ueda and H. Kaneda of Kushiro . This is because it can be a slow process to establish that an observation is not of an already known object . aim with domain fall into certain categories are limited to deities or creatures from Greek myth ( and no , 5190 Fry does not have one of these orbits ) .
Once identification and eye socket have been confirmed , the discoverer has ten years to take the asteroid ’s name , although the IAUmaintains the rightto refuse hint that are deemed offensive or unpronounceable .
Nevertheless , with 10 million twitter followers , Fry is probably well know , and better loved than all of the others announced this month put together . fortuitously , while you call for to be beat for at least three years to havea crater on the Moon named after you , minor satellite naming conventions are more relaxed . The domain awaitsFry ’s reception .
