HRogge Wrote:http://minorplanetcenter.net/blog/sci-f ... after-him/"Nevertheless, I am here to announce that on June 23rd, 2013, asteroid (5099) was officially named Iainbanks by the IAU, and will be referred to as such for as long as Earth Culture may endure."
As the closest Fenspace has to a deputy Mod (and I'm not that close), I'd prefer this Rock go to somebody or some group who will treat it with respect ... if it goes to anyone at all. Let's not make it just another random settlement.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012