{"id":1901,"date":"2008-03-25T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/25\/pz-myers-asteroid-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:10:10","slug":"pz-myers-asteroid-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/pz-myers-asteroid-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"PZ Myers Asteroid Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I knew before PZ Myers did that an Asteroid had been named after him.  I heard it on the radio. and much later on he confirmed it on his blog. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/03\/look_up.php\"> See this post.<\/a>[Correction:  He knew, he was just being cool.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bluecollarscientist.com\/2008\/03\/25\/asteroids-named-for-pz-myers-phil-plait-rebecca-watson-michael-stackpole\/\">See this<\/a>.]Curiously, PZ claims that we do not know what the asteroid looks like.  He relies on a description provided by his arch rival, Phil Plait.  Why would he trust Phil Plait to describe his asteroid?Anyway, I went into the NASA archives (to which I have special access because of my work on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/technology\/robots\/\">the robot problem<\/a>) and dug out a pretty clear photograph of the asteroid.  Here it is:<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1f900f42f1394c47fe5b687b8e0623eb-brooding-squid2-350.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-1f900f42f1394c47fe5b687b8e0623eb-brooding-squid2-350.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I knew before PZ Myers did that an Asteroid had been named after him. I heard it on the radio. and much later on he confirmed it on his blog. See this post.[Correction: He knew, he was just being cool. See this.]Curiously, PZ claims that we do not know what the asteroid looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/pz-myers-asteroid-confirmed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PZ Myers Asteroid Confirmed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-uF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}