"the Minor Planet Center on 25 January 2005 (). The asteroid 18610 Arthurdent, discovered by Felix Hormuth in 1998, was named after the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's ""The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"". 25924 Douglasadams 25924 Douglasadams, provisional designation , is a Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2.4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 19 February 2001, by astronomers of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research at the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site in New Mexico, United States. The asteroid was named for novelist Douglas Adams. ""Douglasadams"" is a member of the Nysa"
"and shape remain unknown. This minor planet was named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's radio play and book ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"". The naming of the asteroid was announced by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) in its ""Minor Planet Circular"" on 9 May 2001 (). Two days later, Adams died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California. The near coincidence of these events led to some media reports of the asteroid naming appearing after Adams's death was reported, and to assumptions that the two events occurred on the same day, even by those"
"Adams's 61st birthday was celebrated with an interactive Google Doodle. In 2018, John Lloyd presented an hour-long episode of the BBC Radio Four documentary ""Archive on 4"", discussing Adams' private papers, which are held at St John's College, Cambridge. The episode is available online. A street in São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil is named in Adams' honour. Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing"
"Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ""trilogy"" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams also wrote ""Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"" (1987)"
"the author. Norm Thomas, Burnham's former co-worker at Lowell Observatory, had told Burnham that he planned to name an asteroid after him. On September 26, 1981, Thomas discovered a main belt asteroid, but since asteroid 834 Burnhamia, named after the unrelated 19th century astronomer Sherburne Wesley Burnham, already carried the name, a different spelling was needed. Thomas chose the spelling ""Bernheim"", for the Burnham family's ancestral Bohemian surname. Thus the asteroid named to honor Robert Burnham Jr. was named 3467 Bernheim. Burnham died destitute and alone at the age of sixty-one in 1993. His family did not learn about his"
"in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.210. It has an absolute magnitude of 15.6. As of 2017, no rotational lightcurve of ""Douglasadams"" has been obtained from photometric observations. The asteroid's rotation period, poles and shape remain unknown. This minor planet was named in memory of English novelist Douglas Adams (1952–2001), because its provisional designation happened to contain the year of his death, his initials, and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (42), as given in his novel serial ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"". The official naming citation was published by"
"the University of Utah. In 1986 he became a guest professor at Tohoku University. In 1986, Min was appointed as the group leader of Physics Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a position in which he remained until 1992. In 1990–1991 he taught as a guest professor at the University of Alabama. He joined the Jiusan Society in 1995. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2001. On December 20, 2013, an asteroid (199953) was named after him. On September 16,"
"1973 and 1980, he led tours to Africa to observe solar eclipses. Franklin contributed almanac information including the time of sunrise to ""The New York Times"" from 1975 to 1997. He also contributed all of the astronomical calculations for the Farmers' Almanac from 1980 to 1992. These were in addition to his regular duties presenting popular planetarium shows from 1956 to 1984 and producing his own radio program. An asteroid discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1981 was named 2845 Franklinken in Franklin's honor. Franklin lived in Loveland, Colorado until his death in Boulder from heart surgery complications. He"
"Programme and to ""The IT Crowd"" for Best Situation Comedy dedicated their awards to Perkins. Geoffrey Perkins Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995–2001), he produced the first two radio series of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside"
"quantum nano-optics of semiconductors. Gibbs became a professor emeritus in 2011, but continued his work until his death in 2012. The unusual main-belt asteroid 221628 Hyatt was named in his honor on 3 July 2012 (), just two months before he died. The asteroid was discovered by his son Alex Gibbs of the Catalina Sky Survey, who proposed the name to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. Gibbs' first marriage was to Lethia, with whom he had a son, Alex, and a daughter, Vanetta. His second marriage was to Galina Khitrova, with whom he collaborated professionally. On"
"His studies focused on comets as well as asteroids and he also supervises numerous graduate students. He was an elected fellow of the AAAS. He authored over 100 papers published in journals and was also an avid sailor who had a commercial coast guard license. In June 1986, the main-belt asteroid 3192 A'Hearn, discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station in Flagstaff, Arizona, was named after him in honor of his contributions to cometary science. In 2008, he received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize. He died on May 29, 2017 at the age of 76. Michael"
"Geoffrey Perkins Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995–2001), he produced the first two radio series of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside Nigel Sheinwald, Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society. Taking"
"the other characters. He made this character an alien and, remembering an idea he supposedly had had while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971, decided that this character would be a ""roving reporter"" for ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,"" a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. Recollections by his friends at the time indicate that Adams first spoke of the idea of ""hitchhiking around the galaxy"" while on holiday in Greece in 1973. As the first episode's writing progressed, the ""Guide"" became the central focus of his story, and Adams decided to base the whole series"
"plans have been discontinued, with business-focused plans as the only remaining options. Code42 was founded as an IT consulting company in 2001, by Matthew Dornquast, Brian Bispala, and Mitch Coopet. The company's name honors Douglas Adams, who authored ""Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"" and had died that year. In the book, the number 42 is the ""answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything"". Some of Code42's first projects included a redesign of Sun Country Airlines’ website in 2002, a project for the retailer Target Corporation, and the ticket booking engine for Midwest Airlines. Income from the"
"category ""Columns and Commentary"". He was a finalist in the same category in 2008 for some of his columns in ""Slate"" but lost out to Matt Taibbi of ""Rolling Stone"". He won the National Magazine Award for Columns about Cancer in 2011. Hitchens also served on the Advisory Board of Secular Coalition for America and offered advice to the Coalition on the acceptance and inclusion of nontheism in American life. In December 2011, prior to his death, Asteroid 57901 Hitchens was named after him. Hitchens wrote a monthly essay in ""The Atlantic"" and occasionally contributed to other literary journals. One"
"and president of the same in 1970–1973. He is noted for his contributions to knowledge of the Milky Way galaxy and he wrote several books on mathematics and astronomy during his career. Dying at the age of 72, he was survived by his wife Jeannette (née Scott) and their two sons. The minor planet 2007 McCuskey is named after him. Sidney Wilcox McCuskey Sidney Wilcox McCuskey (February 28, 1907 – April 22, 1979) was an American mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio on February 28, 1907, the son of Charles McCuskey and Lottie (née Wilcox). In"
"Tokyo. He died on April 11, 1962, of osteomyelitis. In recognition of his achievements, he was posthumously decorated with one of the highest orders awarded by the Japanese government. In 1960, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named a group of Antarctic islands the ""Nakaya Islands"" in recognition of his contributions to science. The asteroid ""10152 Ukichiro"" is also named after him. From 1933, Nakaya observed natural snow and created 3,000 photographic plates of snow crystals, classifying them into seven major and numerous minor types. In the course of these observations, taking photographs of natural snow and sorting them by appearance"
"absolute magnitude of 14.3. This minor planet was named after the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), author of """". The official naming citation was prepared with assistance from Richard Binzel and published by the Minor Planet Center on 3 May 1996 (). The asteroid's name independently suggested by Duncan Steel (). In the postscript to his novel """", Clarke jokingly expresses disappointment that he did not receive asteroid 2001 as his namesake, instead it was named for Albert Einstein. 4923 Clarke 4923 Clarke, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid"
"Silla, Chile. As of 2016, he is a project manager at MPIA, working for the Institute's hardware contribution to ESA's space-based Euclid mission, which will accurately measure the acceleration of the universe for the study of dark energy and dark matter. The Minor Planet Center ranks him 127th for a total of 75 credited discoveries of numbered asteroid during 2003–2009. Hormuth has named his discovered main-belt asteroids 241475 Martinagedeck and 342843 Davidbowie after actors and song-writer Martina Gedeck and David Bowie, respectively. He has also named 18610 Arthurdent after the character in Douglas Adams's radio play and book ""The Hitchhiker's"
"deep-space missions during his extended career, including Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Cassini missions. For his sustained robotic exploration contributions over the last 40 years of the 20th century and solid success record, he received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and has an asteroid (13801 Kohlhase) named in his honor. He managed and guided the team which designed the epic Voyager Grand Tour mission to the outer planets and their moons and rings. After Voyager, Kohlhase became the science and mission design manager for the international Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. Following the launch, cruise, and Saturn orbit phases of"
"five years at JPL, he was Director of Solar System Exploration with responsibility for the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn, Dawn mission to Asteroids Vesta and Ceres, Juno mission to Jupiter, and formulation of the first ever Mars helicopter, and a multibillion-dollar mission to Europa (a moon of Jupiter) in search of life outside of Earth. After 36 years, he retired from NASA in February 2016. At a farewell party in his honor, it was announced that Asteroid 1989 EL1 was renamed Asteroid ""5515 Naderi"" for his contribution to space exploration. The asteroid was discovered by the late American astronomer, Eleanor"
"read the obscured portions. These contained references to ""Nelly"" and confirmed the persistent rumors."" Nickell received the 2004 Isaac Asimov Award from the American Humanist Association and was a co-recipient of the 2005 and the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, awarded by CSICOP, now called CSI. In 2000 was presented with the ""Distinguished Skeptic"" award from CSI. He was also presented an award for promotion of science in popular media at the 3rd Annual Independent Investigative Group IIG Awards, held on May 18, 2009. In October 2011 asteroid 31451 (1999 CE10) was named JoeNickell in his honor"
"was proposed by Greek expert Charles Burney, Jr., the son of a friend of Herschel. In 2014 he discovered a previously unrecognised allusion to the aurora borealis in Milton's ""Paradise Lost"". In 1990, the Mars-crossing asteroid 4276 Clifford, discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell in 1981, was named in his honor (). Clifford Cunningham Clifford J. Cunningham is a Canadian-born professional astronomer and author of numerous books on asteroids. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo in 1976; upon enrollment, at age 15, he was the youngest student ever to attend UW. In 1991 he"
"were also named after him: an asteroid discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell on February 8, 1984, 3355 Onizuka and a 29-km-diameter crater on the Moon, Onizuka. Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, California also has a street named after him, as does the street surrounding Whitcomb Elementary school in Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas, where his daughters attended. It also named its library the Onizuka Memorial Library. (At the time of the ""Challenger"" disaster, his older daughter, Janelle, attended Clear Lake High School. His younger daughter, Darien Lei, was at Whitcomb.) In addition, Onizuka Street in Little Tokyo has a"
"Goldstein became Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at Lehigh. In 1990, Goldstein moved to UMass to become Dean of Engineering, a position he held until 2004. In 1999 he received the Henry Clifton Sorby Award of the International Metallographic Society. The asteroid 4989 Joegoldstein was named after Goldstein in 2000 by Schelte J. Bus, who had discovered the asteroid in 1981 at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. It was named in honor of Goldstein because of his outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics. In 2005 he received the highest award of the Meteoritical Society, the Leonard Medal, for work"
"for the Apollo program and the Voyager spacecraft (for example). Today he is considered a pioneer of space travel. In recognition of his scientific achievements, a lunar crater was named after him in 1970. The Astronomical Association of Essen (Germany) gave itself the name ""Walter-Hohmann-Observatory"" in 1971. Also asteroid 9661 Hohmann is named after him. Walter Hohmann Walter Hohmann (; ; 18 March 1880 – 11 March 1945) was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft between two"
"and selection by ""Time Magazine"" as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2008. Griffin received the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement's National Space Trophy in May 2009. On March 13, 2008, Griffin was awarded the title of 74th honorary chancellor at Florida Southern College during its annual Founder's Day Ceremony. On May 22, 2011, Griffin was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. On July 11, 2018, asteroid 159999 Michaelgriffin was named after him. The main-belt asteroid was discovered by astronomer Marc Buie at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, in 2006."
"Robert Burnham Jr. Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume ""Burnham's Celestial Handbook"". He is the discoverer of numerous asteroids including the Mars crossing asteroid 3397 Leyla, as well as six comets. Burnham's late years were tragic; he died destitute and alone. However, he is remembered by a generation of deep sky observers for his unique contribution to astronomy, the ""Celestial Handbook."" The main-belt asteroid 3467 Bernheim was named in his honor. Burnham was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931, the son of Robert Sr. and"
"was the first director of the Paris Observatory from 1671 until his death. He discovered the four moons of Saturn – Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione – the major gap in its rings, known as Cassini Division, and was the first to write down observations of the zodiacal light. The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft is named after him and Christiaan Huygens. The lunar and Martian craters ""Cassini"" are also named in his honor. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 September 2002 (). 24101 Cassini 24101 Cassini, provisional designation """", is an eccentric background asteroid from"
"time, as well as the near-Earth asteroid 4544 Xanthus, and the main-belt asteroid 6312 Robheinlein, which he named after famous science fiction author, Robert Heinlein. He is also a co-discoverer of the three periodic comets 121P/Shoemaker-Holt, 127P/Holt–Olmstead, and 128P/Shoemaker-Holt. The Mars-crossing asteroid 4435 Holt was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1991 (). Henry Holt made some of his discoveries in collaboration with: Norman G. Thomas, David Levy, Jeffery A. Brown, , and Carolyn Shoemaker Henry E. Holt Henry E. Holt (born 1929) is an American astronomer and"
"but did not live to see them. He mapped the far side of the moon in NASA's ""Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature"", with co-author Ewen Whitaker, published in 1982. Leif Andersson died from lymphatic cancer at the age of 35 on 4 May 1979. He was survived by his wife. The crater ""Andersson"" on the Moon was named in his memory. In honor of Leif Andersson's work on the determination of Pluto's pole position, the Spacewatch Asteroid Project at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory named the asteroid 9223 Leifandersson on 24 January 2000 (). Leif Erland Andersson Leif"
"Eoin Colfer, who wrote the sixth book in the Hitchhiker's series in 2008–09, used this latter concept but none of the plot ideas from ""The Salmon of Doubt"". In ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and"
"accurate values of planetary masses are used in calculating orbits. When the planet was named, he interpreted its symbol as a monogram referring to himself and Lowell by the phrase ""Pickering-Lowell"". He claimed to have found vegetation on the moon in 1921. In 1923 he retired from Harvard University. He died on January 16, 1938 in Mandeville, Jamaica. He won the Prix Lalande in 1905 and the Prix Jules Janssen in 1909. The asteroid 784 Pickeringia, and the craters Pickering on the Moon and Pickering on Mars, are jointly named after him and his brother Edward Charles Pickering. William Henry"