Not Many Can Say This About Their Friends

A good friend of mine, Rebecca Watson, who run the skepchick website has received a great honor.

She's had an asteroid named after her.

Yup. Asteroid 153289 is now popularly named Rebeccawatson after being named as such by its discoverer, the Blue Color Scientist. Three other asteroids were named by the BCA after other popular scientist/skeptics, Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer), Michael Stackpole (author of various books, as well as the Pauling report, which countered every claim by D&D = Satanism crowd some years back), and Paul Myers, better known as PZ Myers a popular science blogger.

This is of course, the coolest thing ever.