Two Armagh Planetarium staff get asteroids named for them

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIf an asteroid has your name on it, you own it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've believed that since I was a boy, and I have the paperwork in a drawer.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe paperwork is a takeout menu. Two men at the Armagh Planetarium and Observatory just had asteroids named for them, the BBC reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo they own two asteroids.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThey own two names. Shane Kelly, the meteorological officer, got seven thousand fifty, Shanekelly. Dr Rok Nezic got twenty thousand five hundred sixty, Nezic.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA man who reads weather for a living now has a rock named after him that has no weather.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentRTÉ says they're estimated at over ten kilometres across. Big, but you'd still need a very large telescope to see either one.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTen kilometres and I can't see my own house?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe International Astronomical Union runs the naming, and about twenty-five thousand asteroids already have official names. So, myth. A name is not a deed.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine. Then I'm naming the pigeon outside my window, and he's getting a rock.