* Astronomy

Charles Kankelborg, a "well-rounded astrophysicist" at Montana State University, now has an asteroid named after him.
The asteroid, 269 million miles away from the sun, was detected from an observatory in the middle of a steamy Texas swamp where alligators sometimes loiter at the base of the building.
 Asteroid 120120 was first detected on March 28, 2003 and now has been naming Kankelborg.

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