AZ Observatory Wants to Name Asteroid After Trayvon Martin

Out in Flagstaff

Albert Einstein. George Takei. Jerry Garcia.

All of those men and many others have had an asteroid named after them. And if William Lowell Putnam III, trustee of Lowell Observatory, has his way, another name will be added to that list: Trayvon Martin. 

The retired broadcast executive, alpinist, author and Flagstaff resident believes that Martin has not received justice.

It was an unusually warm night at Anderson Mesa south of Flagstaff on Oct. 2, 2000, when Lowell Observatory astronomers found the asteroid 2000 TM61. It was just one of hundreds that observatory's researchers discovered as part of their search for Near Earth Asteroids.

(Hat tip to Felix Finch)

Comments

[Ted Levy]

Cold, dead, smart as a rock...

[JenniferGoltman]

What is the difference between Mozart and Trayvon? Mozart was a composer; Trayvon is a decomposer.

Really though, we've gotta do something about our horrendous rate of Democrat-on-Democrat violence.

Zimmerman's only mistake was voting for Trayvon's "father"...

[Scarecrow Repair]

Possibly cracked, high, stoned, airless ...

[JenniferGoltman]

Yeah, that would honor America exactly as much as naming it Chancey Luna would honor Australia.

[Ariel Peril]

If an astroid named Trayvon is on a collision course with earth will stand your ground apply when Earth launches a rag tag crew of drillers to destroy it? Is it racist to send a rag tag group of drillers to blow up a Trayvon asteroid? Are Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck the heroes we need and not the heroes we deserve? So many questions.

[JenniferGoltman]

It would only be racist if the entire crew are "white-Hispanic"...