OFF: More on D. Adams

[Cliff & Pam Wheaton]

Now, that is too cool. What a neat memorial to an awesome author:)
BTW, Keith, Just got my paws on that new Legendary Pink Dots! Good stuph,
there!
Pam

K Henderson wrote:

> More on Adams...Grakkl (FAA)
>
> Galactic hitchhiker honoured with a rock:
>
> In a coincidence that could have been taken straight from one of his
> quirky novels, on the day British writer Douglas Adams died, an
> international space agency named an asteroid Arthurdent, after a
> character from his best-known work, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
> Galaxy.
>
> The Minor Planet Center, a branch of the International Astronomical
> Union, made the announcement on Friday in an e-mail circular, a
> spokesman for the centre in Cambridge, Mass., said yesterday.  One of
> the centre's roles is to assign names to new asteroids, comets and
> other orbiting rocks.

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