Asteroid 117736 Sherrod

[Wade Van Arsdale]

Congratulations, Doc Clay on your discovery of Asteroid 117736 Sherrod!  Keep up the great work!  I hope to attend
the AOAS December meeting to hear all about it and catch up with what has been going on up at ASO.  You and
your facilities up there are truly an "Arkansas Treasure".

Best regards,
Wade Van Arsdale
CAAS member
L.R., AR.

[mfortsm]

I had not heard this.  I also want to send congratulations! and look forward to hearing all about it .   (Hope this isn't the big one)  .   Mike H.

[twilbur]

Awesome (but not surprising)!!!
Congratulations Dr. Clay / ASO!

[Ron]

CONGRATULATIONS DOC

GREAT NEWS, GREAT FIND, AND HOPE YOU DISCOVER MANY, MANY, MORE OF THOSE HIDDEN ROCKS

THANKS,

RON

[dsnay]

Congratulations Dr. Clay!
I, too, hope this is not the big one.

Dave

[drclay]

 
Thanks to all....
Actually I did not find this big rock, buy Michel Ory of Switzerland (MPC 185) did in 2005; he and others have  honored me with my place in the sky (some 169.7 million miles away) by naming it after me.  Actually I think it is better....if I had found the big rock, I would have been required to name it after someone else.

The IAU has the petition for the citation now and it should be official within days.

I am then going to post a complete profile on my little world out there.  And, by the way, this one looks safe.  I prefer to not have the one that is going to bring armaggedon bearing the Sherrod name!

Its previous title was a romantic "2005 GQ22".

Thanks to all....Dr. Clay

[lindendave]

In case anyone would care to play with Doc's namesake  I went and found the orbit simulation on the Near Earth Object Program at NASA.

The link below shows its position as of today.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=2005+GQ22&group=all&search=Search