As if the musical legacy of Queen singer Freddie Mercury wasn’t enough, he now has a permanent place in the stars in the form of an asteroid named in his honor.
Bandmate and astrophysicist Dr. Brian May made the announcement and explained a little more about the celestial object:
[I]t’s out in the main asteroid belt beyond the orbit of Mars and inside the orbit of Jupiter it’s about three and a half kilometers across
it has an albedo of about .3 which means it only reflects about one-third of the light which falls upon it. So it’s a dark object, it’s like a cinder in space as many of these asteroids are. From the earth, it shines at the 14th magnitude, which means you have to have a pretty decent telescope to see it but it’s just a dot of light but it’s a very special dot of light and maybe one day we’ll get there.
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