{"id":13699,"date":"2005-01-26T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/asteroid-named-after-douglas-adams\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T12:04:00","slug":"asteroid-named-after-douglas-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/asteroid-named-after-douglas-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>MSNBC<\/i> reports that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The week he died, science-fiction humorist Douglas Adams was honored with an asteroid named after one of the characters from his classic &ldquo;Hitchhiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy&rdquo; [asteroid Arthur Dent]. Now, almost four years later, Adams has his own name in the heavens as well \u2014 thanks to a campaign in which <i>MSNBC.com<\/i> played a part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was almost as if it was fated to be: the asteroid with the provisional designation 2001 DA42, which carries Douglas Adams&rsquo; initials, the year in which he died, and the illustrious number &ldquo;42,&rdquo; has now been renamed &ldquo;Douglasadams.&rdquo;  A fitting tribute to a gifted author who died before his time&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/01\/26\/0552222&amp;tid=133&amp;tid=160\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110674105134051410?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC reports that The week he died, science-fiction humorist Douglas Adams was honored with an asteroid named after one of the characters from his classic &ldquo;Hitchhiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy&rdquo; [asteroid Arthur Dent]. Now, almost four years later, Adams has his own name in the heavens as well \u2014 thanks to a campaign in which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/asteroid-named-after-douglas-adams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}