<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks, Martin - I can't see them naming a minor plane 'Windows 7' any time soon!<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/2/10, Martin <i><martin@ml1.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Martin <martin@ml1.co.uk><br>Subject: [Nottingham] Linux goes astronomical: 9885 Linux (1994 TM14)<br>To: "NLUG" <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Friday, 12 February, 2010, 12:53<br><br><div class="plainMail">Folks,<br><br>An interesting little snippet...<br><br>Linux has got a heavenly body named after it:<br><br><a href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=9885" target="_blank">http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=9885</a><br><br>####<br>9885 Linux<br>Discovered 1994 Oct. 12 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.<br><br>The Linux operating system was created by Linus
Torvalds in 1991. The<br>source code for Linux was placed on the Internet. A massive public<br>collaboration resulted in a robust, feature-rich operating system that<br>has been used by several minor-planet surveys for data collection and<br>analysis.<br>####<br><br>(Can't find anything for the other OSes...)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Martin<br><br>-- <br>----------------<br>Martin Lomas<br><a ymailto="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a><br>----------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>