I dunno if there is already a thread on this
Terry Lovejoy has an Asteroid named after him now!
What a way to honour an Amateur Comet hunter!
Gordon Garradd discovered the Asteroid! Great stuff!
Well Done Terry!
From Comets-ml:
list members might be interested to know that
another member of this list has had an asteroid named after him.
Among the list of new names issued in the MPCs of september 26
was (61342) Lovejoy named for Terry Lovejoy.
This asteroid is one discovered by Gordon Garradd back in 2000
from his private observatory.