[Nottingham] Linux goes astronomical: 9885 Linux (1994 TM14)

[Bob Marshall]

Thanks, Martin - I can't see them naming a minor plane 'Windows 7' any time soon!

--- On Fri, 12/2/10, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
Subject: [Nottingham] Linux goes astronomical: 9885 Linux (1994 TM14)
To: "NLUG" <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Friday, 12 February, 2010, 12:53

Folks,

An interesting little snippet...

Linux has got a heavenly body named after it:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=9885

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9885 Linux
Discovered 1994 Oct. 12 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.

The Linux operating system was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The
source code for Linux was placed on the Internet. A massive public
collaboration resulted in a robust, feature-rich operating system that
has been used by several minor-planet surveys for data collection and
analysis.
####

(Can't find anything for the other OSes...)

Cheers,
Martin

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