Legacy: Why not name a minor Planet/Asteroid after a Patriot?

[RecoveringCowboy]

Yes: something like Planet Brady (250012 Brady - Provisional Designation 2025 NE87)

Has not happened - yet. This comes close: 9974 Brody (IAU Minor Planet Center)

And yes - some of this is legit and gets approved by the IAU. The star registries are a sham.

It's been done - such as the minor planet 85386 Payton (not Peyton, but are you motivated?)

List of minor planets named after people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[lurker1965]

Do you really want an answer? Because that opens a pandora's box. Every "popular" celebrity (that includes athletes) has serious problems. Yes, it has happened, supposedly. Doesn't mean it should.
Ass-teroid Kardashian? In 50 years will anyone know that joke? I need a similar made example from the '20s. How about minor planet Cantor for Eddie Cantor - remember him? I'm sure his fame was so ever lasting that naming a celestial body after him and not the discoverer of it was worth it.

 

[oldrover]

If it will help, I'll name a hemorrhoid after Roger Goodell.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Do you really want an answer? Because that opens a pandora's box. Every "popular" celebrity (that includes athletes) has serious problems. Yes, it has happened, supposedly. Doesn't mean it should.
Ass-teroid Kardashian? In 50 years will anyone know that joke? I need a similar made example from the '20s. How about minor planet Cantor for Eddie Cantor - remember him? I'm sure his fame was so ever lasting that naming a celestial body after him and not the discoverer of it was worth it.

That's actually named after Georg Cantor, who proved that there's more than one "level of infinity." (For example, there are more real numbers between 0 and 1 than there are integers.)

 

[Nikolai]

I'm down with naming an asteroid after a BB/Brady-era Patriot, but only on the condition that it has a reasonable chance of hitting the next Broncos-Ravens game.

 

[The Brandon Five]

Why not? I have already named a few of them after recent Super Bowls:

XLI
XLVII
XLVIII
L

 

[Joker]

Uranus is already taken............

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

If you want to name something after Brady, it can't be some "minor planet".

I'm thinking it has to be re-naming the Earth, or maybe the Sun.

 

[Big Bucks]

Isn't this women's work like Birthday cards

 

[lurker1965]

That's actually named after Georg Cantor, who proved that there's more than one "level of infinity." (For example, there are more real numbers between 0 and 1 than there are integers.)

My mistake. Actually I was going for an old timey celebrity example and accidentally hit something real. You know to show "fame" is fleeting. I guess I should have used a fat one being named "Arbuckle," near the big ass planetoid "Kardashian."

Sorry to any theoretical mathematicians also named "Arbuckle" for my mistake. That actually makes my point about doing something as opposed to playing a game or pretending to be someone else or making a sex tape.