I actually mention in my Twitter profile that I'm named after asteroid 158092, and nobody has ever noticed the joke. It was all thanks to Jeff Medkeff, a fantastic astronomer and science communicator who named a bunch of asteroids after his friends a decade ago. Died of liver cancer in 2008. :-(
I'm one of your subs for years, I must have missed that episode... well Congrats to you Sir as well... but you know... that's still not a planet... even if a minor one ;)
Fraser Cain When you said science communicator, it seemed to line up with your parents being fans of his work and picking your name from his mention of the asteroid.
Time to get a kickstarter going to send a cubesat mission to these two celestial bodies. I have a suspicion that one hemisphere of both bodies will have quite a smooth surface... ;-)
Is there an asteroid Pamelagay yet? She deserves one as well for so many great years of AstronomyCast with you. Thanks to both of you for keeping it running!
Tss, not only for the asteroids animation (which indeed I have used in my conferences, like many other astronomers), but also and mainly for the youtube channel. In Europe at least it seems science communication and vulgarisation is not done on TV anymore, but now on youtube. You are doing an important work. The thing is I looked to see what was your asteroid number, and was surprised you didn't have one. So now it's done. Very very well deserved.
Scott, along with KSP, has probably done more to educate the general population about orbital mechanics than almost anything I can think of. Congratulations, Scott!
Congratulations! You just became immortal. That's the real deal, Scott. I think it is going to be an object in KSP which you have to grab and return to Earth (or Kerbin).
that could be the first step for a cosmic highway warning for spaceships made with FTL tech from Elon Musk! Man im so excited for the future, so many cool gadgets! reference.pxr
Thousands of years from now ... on Kerbalia, proud capital of the Human Colony of Scottmanlya... small dude : "Mom, mom, why is our planet called Scottmanlya ?" mom *looks up to a statue of a bald man before a flying rocket trailing a sign [FLY SAYFE] : "It's for one of the great heroes of the first space age, son ..."
You haven't been watching your future-of-the-universe UA-cam videos. Biological people won't be here "Thousands of years from now..." We are riding one of the last waves now.
I got to suggest the name for Stevenson Crater on Mercury and it was approved. They were naming newly discovered craters from Messenger after famous authors and I wanted to name it after Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island - X marks the spot). Getting to name a crater the size of Connecticut was one of the coolest things that ever happened to me.
Wow, many many years ago when I was about 10 years old, my family and I stayed at Alain Maury's observatory in San Pedro de Atacama while on a vacation Chile, that kickstarted my interest in Astronomy and space!
Congratulations Scott! That's a very impressive accomplishment, and I'm happy to hear that you have a planet now. I've loved your channel for a long time, and this is very well deserved. Now I wonder what it'd take for me to get a planet...
My personal favorite naming convention for space Objects: Craters on Mercury They are named for Artists. I find it oddly beautiful that everybody from Monet to Goethe, Tolkien to Chekov or Enheduanna (literally the first known poet - Sumerian who lived ~4200 years ago) to Keats has a crater named after them there. Lots of lesser known international artists too . And yes, once he has been famous for 50 years (so in 2025 perhaps) the International Astronomical Union should 100% be petitioned to name a crater after Freddie Mercury.
I found this channel searching for Loudoun Hill, which is only a few miles away from my location. Hands down my favorite channel on youtube. Inspirational and wholesome content with every video. No one deserves this more than Scott Manley!!
I'm pretty happy with my job which is one of my favourite hobbies that gives me more than enough money, but... damn, do I envy you! :D good luck with it!
You may have just started a "Platinum Rush." (Just as soon as Scott "draws up" a few more clear and informative animations showing how it might be Economically Accomplished.)
CONGRATS SCOTT! I've been telling people for a while to please find someone with naming rights so we could have a Scottmanley minor planet... It's probably nothing I said, because I'm sure lots of people had the same idea, but I'm so glad it happened. Your educational and informative videos have had such an impact on UA-cam that you definitely deserve it. ^^
Also congrats on getting a sizeable rock with a low-ish number. Regular people if they do something special might get lucky and get a sub-km six-digit rock since that's where most of the availability is.
I've seen that animation countless times but didn't know it was the work of one person, let alone know which person. I'd assumed it was a quite large team that put it together. Amazing, and thanks for doing it.
4:14 As a Dutchie I must say I lol'd quite hard at the name of 9001 Slettebak. Also, congrats Scott! You are now a part of recorded history! I can't even begin to imagine how awesome that must feel!
Congrats, and well deserved. What you are doing is very important on the humanity level. You are part of thoose people who help humanity to look to the stars again.
Congrats - and well deserved. "scott manley xxxxxxx" are the go-to search term if anything exciting space related have happened, and the results are always a good and balanced analysis imho. Eternal gratitude and eternal fame from now on, well done.
Congratulations! Thank you for being such a good communicator and teach us so many awesome things about our universe. I’m sure that you’ll be known for many more than "just” someone who got a minor planet named after.
I paid $25 to name a star after my mom for mother's day 19 years ago. She loved the gift. The next day she had a stroke and died (I was there for it). So it may have been just some book put together for that website by some charlatan...but it was priceless for me because of the circumstances. Some of the best money I ever spent. Love that someone did that for you Scott...that's awesome!
I didn’t know you were the creator of the history of asteroid mapping animation. I have shown that to so many people. Oh, and congratulations on scottmanley!
Interestingly, 33434 as I recall, was our Florida Zip Code (AKA-Post Code), when we lived near Boca Raton FL. Nothing more cool than having a planet named after you. This is especially true if you’re a Scotsman. Oddly, beside our Florida home we built 2 years ago an addition on to a 19th C. Croft House in Caithness, Scottish Highlands 🏴. Seems like we should follow you on UA-cam & maybe Twitter too as you’re a Scottish neighbor. (Sadly, we haven’t been able to see our Highland home in 2 years, Gratis CoV). But we’ll eventually get home even if it’s 10 years from now. Call us…”Missing Scotland”🏴 & thanks for your interesting Channel.
Hey Scott. 🎆 Congrats 🎆 I'm just happy for your sake they dropped the FU. How cool it must feel to have a name that withstand the ages. Long after your gone, future humans will come across this planet to find it's title and research it's namesake. Then the will see the true gravity of this little planet. Your awesome buddy. Please keep up the good work and fly safe!
Wow, amazing. Your name has now been immortalized. Hundreds or even thousands of years from now after you're long gone, your name will still be floating out there as well as appear in asteroid catalogues. Pretty cool stuff. In comparison, the rest of us will be forgotten in a few decades max.
Dangerous sport. What if that exoplanet hosts a highly xenophobic aggressive space faring species? We'll be at war with the Scottmanley-ians (or ManlyScott-ians). His name will be imprinted on history in a bad way.
I remember that animation of asteroid discovery and trajectory ten years ago. Freaked me right out with the sheer awe and scale of a mostly unknown clear and present danger. Also optimism for the future of abundant off-world resourcing.
@@ThalisUmobi Perhaps you right - jokes aside, Scott Manley is one of the most iconic and famous persons in KSP community. Maybe it can be an anomaly/easter egg on Dres, something like the tiny rocket from Scott's outro on the surface (come on, Squad, there are already Apollo-11's lander on the Mun, UFOs, pre-1.0 space center etc!). Or a small chanse that newly discovered asteroid will be named "SCT-[number]-MN1Y", we already have "R2-[num]-D2" and other madness. Or both.
Thanks for letting us know the naming conventions rules for various objects after showing us proof of the object named after you and why. Was expecting purely a vlog but got a fun educational follow up which is very welcome
I did that an hour ago. If you have a big enough telescope, you should have no trouble seeing it. If not, you'll just have to take my word for it. (Since you are asking for something unverifiable, this is the cheapest response.)
Congratulations, Scott! I've had occasion to hear my friend Don Machholz talk about what it's like to have an astronomical object bear your name, and the mix of feelings that comes with it. You do great work, and I'm glad someone chose to recognize that.
Low inclination, low eccentricity? I guess Scottmanley is flying safe.
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Thank you, I needed a laugh lol.
1999 fu...... xD
Of course, what did you expect, Scott to fly...Dangerous...ly
Somebody had to say it.
I assume the northern hemisphere will be highly reflective.
xD
lmao, what a low blow
Yes, but is north really up?
Tux Mux there’s never a true ‘up’ unless you’re on a surface, so north is arbitrarily up most of the time
XDDDD
Scott Manley : "I'm Scott Manley"
Me : "the man or the planet ?"
Scott : "yes"
Grand Vezier Nappa, I require your treasured guidance once more.
Haha
He's a Celestial
@@JGuraan bingo !
@@YounesLayachi Now he just needs to have a son named Scott Jr, then he'll have the whole trifecta!
"Hello, it's Scott Manley here on Scottmanley! We're Scott Manley, fly safe."
Hullo*
imagine Scott Manley with a spacesuit and a camera recording it with a lander in the background xD
What if they add it to KSP
I actually mention in my Twitter profile that I'm named after asteroid 158092, and nobody has ever noticed the joke. It was all thanks to Jeff Medkeff, a fantastic astronomer and science communicator who named a bunch of asteroids after his friends a decade ago. Died of liver cancer in 2008. :-(
All good except the bit at the end. :-(
I'm one of your subs for years, I must have missed that episode... well Congrats to you Sir as well... but you know... that's still not a planet... even if a minor one ;)
Fraser Cain When you said science communicator, it seemed to line up with your parents being fans of his work and picking your name from his mention of the asteroid.
Time to get a kickstarter going to send a cubesat mission to these two celestial bodies. I have a suspicion that one hemisphere of both bodies will have quite a smooth surface... ;-)
Is there an asteroid Pamelagay yet? She deserves one as well for so many great years of AstronomyCast with you. Thanks to both of you for keeping it running!
Now, we must:
a) Take a photograph of 33434 Scottmanley
b) Photoshop Scott's face onto 33434 Scottmanley
c) Send edited photograph to Scott Manley.
Say no more.
Matt Lowne be like: I got u fam
Thats alot of Scott Manley
d) Send edited photograph to Scottmanley
d) keep spamming it
Tss, not only for the asteroids animation (which indeed I have used in my conferences, like many other astronomers), but also and mainly for the youtube channel. In Europe at least it seems science communication and vulgarisation is not done on TV anymore, but now on youtube. You are doing an important work. The thing is I looked to see what was your asteroid number, and was surprised you didn't have one. So now it's done. Very very well deserved.
Thank you for doing this man!
Thank you very much!
It is nice to see devotion to a field recognized, I thank you both and especially you Scott for all of the excellent content.
So, was picking an "FU" for him deliberate then? 😉
-Applause!- Standing ovation
Congratulations Scott! This is amazing. So proud of you
Hello wonderful people, go sub to this guy ^^^
why no one notice this
I'd say switching from FU to Scottmanley was a positive change.
Haha!
Earth is actually classified as 'Man Scottley P31415' according to the people living on Scottmanley.
Going to presume that it has an efficiently smooth, high-albedo surface? ;-) Congrats Scott.
What a savage :D
S H I N Y
@@riyanafrizal4188 BALD!
BALD!
MY EYES!
@@riyanafrizal4188 that's the chasma on Charon
Interestingly, no. It is the only known asteroid with hair.
"they very quickly ran out of goddesses" All except one, *S c o t t M a n l e y*
Goddesses... um quick grammar check there buddy
Congrats , oh great Kerbal master.
Seriously , that is awesome.
Scott, along with KSP, has probably done more to educate the general population about orbital mechanics than almost anything I can think of. Congratulations, Scott!
Just gonna start a gofundme to send Scott Manly to Scottmanly real quick
And another one to bring him back?
where is the link?
Congratulations!
You just became immortal.
That's the real deal, Scott.
I think it is going to be an object in KSP which you have to grab and return to Earth (or Kerbin).
And make sure you’re flying safe with it
It better be in KSP 2
Man brag about having a space rock named after himself but you still learn a lot of valuable knowledge.
Congrats mate !
Well deserved !
Im sure its flying safely, what with such a low inclination and eccentricity
Not inb4 Hugh Garmany
Mr3344555 what?
@@rickharper4533 looks like Hugh had the same idea for a joke
Let's send a probe there and etch 'FLY SAFE' into the surface!
that could be the first step for a cosmic highway warning for spaceships made with FTL tech from Elon Musk!
Man im so excited for the future, so many cool gadgets!
reference.pxr
And HULLO
So, when can we expect the kerbal visit to 33434 to plant a flag?
Excellent idea!
@@FiferSkipper With kerbals wearing the face of Scott?
This should be added into the game. Officially. An asteroid called 33434 Scottmanley.
@@quoniam426 No, you land on his head.
Thousands of years from now ... on Kerbalia, proud capital of the Human Colony of Scottmanlya...
small dude : "Mom, mom, why is our planet called Scottmanlya ?"
mom *looks up to a statue of a bald man before a flying rocket trailing a sign [FLY SAYFE] : "It's for one of the great heroes of the first space age, son ..."
Moist Fireworks Absolut kek, bruh.
Someone's gonna carve the face of Scott Manley on that planet
scottmanlia
mom, why is our planet only 5km? It doesn't make any sense
You haven't been watching your future-of-the-universe UA-cam videos. Biological people won't be here "Thousands of years from now..." We are riding one of the last waves now.
I got to suggest the name for Stevenson Crater on Mercury and it was approved. They were naming newly discovered craters from Messenger after famous authors and I wanted to name it after Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island - X marks the spot). Getting to name a crater the size of Connecticut was one of the coolest things that ever happened to me.
Another astronomical feature named after a Scotsman.
I’m impressed
You managed to say FU in an actually serious way
I was gonna comment "Weird flex, but ok"
But that's actually pretty cool
How about you never comment ""Weird flex, but ok"" because repeating the same joke a million times isn't funny.
@@Jayfive276 ok dad
@@Jayfive276 so basically the entire meme culture "isn't funny"
@@johnmiddleton9901 I mean, the meme is kind of dead.
From this now on he can end every arguments with "Yeah but I got a planet named after me".
Now it’s going to be in Universe sandbox^2 with your name.
It's in Space Engine.
me: mom, do you think there's aliens living on scottmanley?
mom: I hope so son...I hope so... (looks to the sky)
He should start charging rent
Looks to sky, sky looks to him:
"Daddy one day we will be going there."
Pretty sure they're small, green, and are in the early stages of an aspiring space program.
Wow, many many years ago when I was about 10 years old, my family and I stayed at Alain Maury's observatory in San Pedro de Atacama while on a vacation Chile, that kickstarted my interest in Astronomy and space!
Congratulations Scott! That's a very impressive accomplishment, and I'm happy to hear that you have a planet now. I've loved your channel for a long time, and this is very well deserved. Now I wonder what it'd take for me to get a planet...
Not a real planet
@@pluto8404 you aren't either
My personal favorite naming convention for space Objects: Craters on Mercury
They are named for Artists. I find it oddly beautiful that everybody from Monet to Goethe, Tolkien to Chekov or Enheduanna (literally the first known poet - Sumerian who lived ~4200 years ago) to Keats has a crater named after them there. Lots of lesser known international artists too . And yes, once he has been famous for 50 years (so in 2025 perhaps) the International Astronomical Union should 100% be petitioned to name a crater after Freddie Mercury.
Congrats. Well deserved. Thanks for bringing the more insightful details of space engineering and physics to the rest of us.
Whoa Scott, that's huge! Now you've go an awesome pickup line... "I'm Scott Manley... I've got a planet."
Wow, someone made Scott Munley mod into a real thing
Edit: Damnit, that joke was already at the end of a video
theres still time to make a real life scott manley kerbal texture pack
@@Duhya Inb4 Scott Manley cosplay consisting of shaved hair and a headphone on one ear
Ok so now we need the Asteroid animation re-done with 33434 Scott Manley highlighted please.
As long as it's not 1999 FU, Scottmanley!
1999 FU too, @christovoskresye
Most likely "(33434) Scottmanley = 1999 FU"
@@SomsoKca ...but it was...because... the F and the U and.... ohh nevermind, you're right.
"1999 FU!" - Scottmanley
I came expecting memes
I left satisfied
I found this channel searching for Loudoun Hill, which is only a few miles away from my location. Hands down my favorite channel on youtube. Inspirational and wholesome content with every video.
No one deserves this more than Scott Manley!!
I love Loudon Hill, I did my school geology field report on its south face.
Your videos inspired me to look more into astrophysics, just completed my first year of a BSC in Physics with AstroPhysics in an Irish University.
I'm pretty happy with my job which is one of my favourite hobbies that gives me more than enough money, but... damn, do I envy you! :D good luck with it!
@@neithere It's a tough course haha
Congratulations, hope you got the mining rights. Cheer's.
You may have just started a "Platinum Rush." (Just as soon as Scott "draws up" a few more clear and informative animations showing how it might be Economically Accomplished.)
CONGRATS SCOTT! I've been telling people for a while to please find someone with naming rights so we could have a Scottmanley minor planet... It's probably nothing I said, because I'm sure lots of people had the same idea, but I'm so glad it happened. Your educational and informative videos have had such an impact on UA-cam that you definitely deserve it. ^^
Also congrats on getting a sizeable rock with a low-ish number. Regular people if they do something special might get lucky and get a sub-km six-digit rock since that's where most of the availability is.
I've seen that animation countless times but didn't know it was the work of one person, let alone know which person. I'd assumed it was a quite large team that put it together.
Amazing, and thanks for doing it.
Ok guys, let's get funding together to send a probe
*Make it happen*
probing Scottmanley?
should probably at least buy him dinner first ;)
@@LoPhatKao With reaction hweels, anything is possible
@@Lagul_4 I'll need more accounts to like this comment
*looks at thumbnail*
No Scott that's Jupiter
One day, people might pass by.
And they will speak your story!
Hopefully they'll be flying safely.
Congratulations Scott, this officialyy elevates you to Geek God status!
4:14 As a Dutchie I must say I lol'd quite hard at the name of 9001 Slettebak.
Also, congrats Scott! You are now a part of recorded history! I can't even begin to imagine how awesome that must feel!
Lol I Just noticed it
Congratulations Scott! Well deserved! Also, I love the Piaggio Avanti engine noise at 3:56.
Now if we see his camera cut out, we'll know they landed on the wrong Scott Manley.
Congrats, and well deserved. What you are doing is very important on the humanity level. You are part of thoose people who help humanity to look to the stars again.
Nobody:
Scott *Planet:* HULLO!
Hullo Pestrenan adoro seus videos
Congrats - and well deserved. "scott manley xxxxxxx" are the go-to search term if anything exciting space related have happened, and the results are always a good and balanced analysis imho. Eternal gratitude and eternal fame from now on, well done.
HULLO! IM SCOTT MUNELY!
Congratulations! Not many will be remembered this way, truly something to tell your offsprings about.
Therapist: Scott Munley doesn't exist, he can't check your staging....
Scott Munley: 7:20
xd
@@tytghjjtgucguvuugugyccyxycycvy he's referencing the Mun from Kerbal Space Program
@@tytghjjtgucguvuugugyccyxycycvy It's Scott Manley
Congratulations!
I have a couple friends with asteroids named after them, but it is a great thing to recognized in this way.
Congratulations, man, that's pretty awesome.
Congratulations! Thank you for being such a good communicator and teach us so many awesome things about our universe. I’m sure that you’ll be known for many more than "just” someone who got a minor planet named after.
I like the Firefly references on Charon. That's pretty dope.
Serenity Chasma! (Was there another?)
Congratulations and that is indeed a very cool animation. I love how it looks like Earth shining a gigantic light on the asteroid belt.
Congrats from Croatia! and tnx for great content.
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I can’t think of anyone else that is more deserving of having an object named after them. Congrats Scott!
Contact Frontier Development and make sure it's updated so I can visit planet Scottmanley.
I paid $25 to name a star after my mom for mother's day 19 years ago. She loved the gift. The next day she had a stroke and died (I was there for it). So it may have been just some book put together for that website by some charlatan...but it was priceless for me because of the circumstances. Some of the best money I ever spent.
Love that someone did that for you Scott...that's awesome!
Damn having your name on a planet
Nice
"lets get this out onto a tray......"
That 5km thing is not a planet
@Feiner Fug
No, he's still bitter about the demotion.
@@pluto8404 i didn't watch whole video i got it from the title cause it says planet
I didn’t know you were the creator of the history of asteroid mapping animation. I have shown that to so many people. Oh, and congratulations on scottmanley!
in a couple hundred years when we've colonized this system, someone should put a kerbal statue on Scottmanley.
I’m imagining a scene in The Expanse where they fly past that asteroid, and it has a kerbal statue.
NOT A KERBAL STATUE, BUT THE STATUE OF THE ROCKET, THAT LANDS ON SCOTTS HEAD IN HIS OUTRO
moonasha This is in _our_ solar system already.
that's why I said THIS system and not THAT system. Learn english
Interestingly, 33434 as I recall, was our Florida Zip Code (AKA-Post Code), when we lived near Boca Raton FL.
Nothing more cool than having a planet named after you. This is especially true if you’re a Scotsman. Oddly, beside our Florida home we built 2 years ago an addition on to a 19th C. Croft House in Caithness, Scottish Highlands 🏴.
Seems like we should follow you on UA-cam & maybe Twitter too as you’re a Scottish neighbor. (Sadly, we haven’t been able to see our Highland home in 2 years, Gratis CoV).
But we’ll eventually get home even if it’s 10 years from now. Call us…”Missing Scotland”🏴 & thanks for your interesting Channel.
A planet is a strong word to use
That's what I was just asking. A 5km object wouldn't even be a planetoid I would think?
Hey Scott. 🎆 Congrats 🎆 I'm just happy for your sake they dropped the FU. How cool it must feel to have a name that withstand the ages. Long after your gone, future humans will come across this planet to find it's title and research it's namesake. Then the will see the true gravity of this little planet. Your awesome buddy. Please keep up the good work and fly safe!
Congratulations, well named.
Can you please explain why Scottmanley is a planet and Pluto is not.
It’s not. It’s a minor planet, meaning it’s too small to be a planet, like Pluto.
Pluto is a planet, a minor planet. A major planet is what we commonly say is a "planet" but they are all wanderers.
@@Mostlyharmless1985 *dwarf
eh, they made another category for the larger minors, same thing neat though.
Congratulations for this achievement, Scott, well deserved! And I agree with other posters, it is "flying safe" for sure. Cheers from Argentina!
Someone, someday might say 'I come from the planet Scott.'
Some space farmer growing cabbage on a tiny space rock.
greetings. an excellent tribute. Alain Maury is a name that will also shine forever.
Congrats from 15858davidwoods :-D
Me too from 696969edgybastard
Me too from 80085jebediahkerman
420420GaneShiny
What the hell, you have my dads name
Having a planet called after you.... out of this world man.
Congrats.
Congrats Scott !! 🚀🛰️🛸
You know you’re successful and highly respected in the scientific community when you get a planet named after you.
cool, Lindsey has an asteroid named after her.
#stirlingite XD
also awesome for you scott!
6:45 Vader Crater.. wow
robert linke dude(or girl, if you’re a girl xD) I literally just whispered a scream when he said Lindsey had an asteroid named after her
You have earened it man. Brining space news to the masses is quite important :)
One thing for sure though: Scott Manley has a big reflectivity
albedo
@@leandrog2785 Electromagnetic mirroring factor
Wow, amazing. Your name has now been immortalized. Hundreds or even thousands of years from now after you're long gone, your name will still be floating out there as well as appear in asteroid catalogues. Pretty cool stuff.
In comparison, the rest of us will be forgotten in a few decades max.
Since it's low inclination it should be relatively easy for a space probe to reach it.
Haven't watched this guy for years, and now he comes out as having a planet named after him.
Damn, now what are we going to name the first exoplanet with life on it now that Scottmanley is taken?
ManleyScott, perhaps?
Dangerous sport. What if that exoplanet hosts a highly xenophobic aggressive space faring species? We'll be at war with the Scottmanley-ians (or ManlyScott-ians). His name will be imprinted on history in a bad way.
Jebedia would be a cool name!
Depending on the lifeform, maybe Alderaan.
Congratulations! You are now forever in the Encyclopedia Galactica. Well deserved.
This is incredible, congratulation!
I remember that animation of asteroid discovery and trajectory ten years ago.
Freaked me right out with the sheer awe and scale of a mostly unknown clear and present danger.
Also optimism for the future of abundant off-world resourcing.
Legendary thumbnail
Finally, there's a possibility of you realizing the dream of having a spacecraft land on an effigy of yourself, as per your outro animation.
Is it in Kerbal Space Program?
Would be a mod soon
We need a mod
It needs to be.
Shouldn't be a mod, gotta be official!!!
@@ThalisUmobi Perhaps you right - jokes aside, Scott Manley is one of the most iconic and famous persons in KSP community. Maybe it can be an anomaly/easter egg on Dres, something like the tiny rocket from Scott's outro on the surface (come on, Squad, there are already Apollo-11's lander on the Mun, UFOs, pre-1.0 space center etc!). Or a small chanse that newly discovered asteroid will be named "SCT-[number]-MN1Y", we already have "R2-[num]-D2" and other madness. Or both.
I vote yes on the Charon feature names! Those are iconic names of undeniable modern travelers of fiction!
damn.
what a flex.
yes
You 100% deserve this just to help promote science... FEW UA-camrs connect to millions of regular people and make science as fun as you...
*has 50.000 Tweets and actually 77.000 Twitter followers*
“I have 50.000 Twitter followers”
Wow, i think that's brilliant m8, having a planet named after you is so cool, congratulations 33434 scottmanley👍
Now we know where he lives guys! ... start to send weird stuff by mail and go visit him from time to time.
Most bad thing you can do is going to people houses, think about it and how you would feel
@@StambeccoAllaFragola If my home was on a minor planet in the Main Belt, I wouldn't mind having a visitor every now and then.
Lisa Bowers Unless there's lively local traffic.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 Hey, if people are able to make it _all_ the way out to the asteroid belt, how could I possibly complain? 🤷🏼♀️
Thanks for letting us know the naming conventions rules for various objects after showing us proof of the object named after you and why. Was expecting purely a vlog but got a fun educational follow up which is very welcome
Do you get dibs on mining rights?
Nope, unless I get there first.
Congratulations Scott! It's an awesome thing to have happen!!!
Congratulations!
Now, could we get a big laser on a spacecraft to carve your face into it? Like some sort of space mount Rushmore!
Or better yet, carve Jebediah's face on it
@@pappi8338 Yes! Bill, Bob, Jebediah and Valentina!
Matches the number of faces on Mount Rushmore.
I did that an hour ago. If you have a big enough telescope, you should have no trouble seeing it. If not, you'll just have to take my word for it.
(Since you are asking for something unverifiable, this is the cheapest response.)
Congratulations, Scott!
I've had occasion to hear my friend Don Machholz talk about what it's like to have an astronomical object bear your name, and the mix of feelings that comes with it.
You do great work, and I'm glad someone chose to recognize that.
Truly manly asteroid :D
I am so proud to be a follower on this youtube channel !