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Holy Cow, Someone Named a Minor Planet After Me! But Why?

2025-05-31 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about 660391 Antonpetrov and why this even happened Links: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=660931 https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bulletins/V005/WGSBNBull_V005_009.pdf https://www.spacereference.org/asteroid/2003-oa34 https://www.rasc.ca/asteroid/660931 Previous impact video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_2sLdHN5k Brady Haran's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLrHQVMx64 0:00 So there is Antonpetrov minor planet out there? 0:55 Asteroid Balam and David Balam's achievements 1:55 How do asteroids get named? 4:10 But why do we name them though? The story of 1 Ceres and others 6:30 How naming convention changed over time 7:40 Why this matters 9:20 So what's 660931 Antonpetrov or 2003 OA34 10:50 Why it really matters and...conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@firstlast-h1j 2025-05-31

They detected strange radio signals coming from this small planet and after decoding it it translated to "Hello wonderful person"

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@AutisticThinker 2025-05-31

"But why?" - Because you are a wonderful person. 🥰

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@BigDaddy_MRI 2025-05-31

Amazing honor. You have done the hard work to receive this honorific, and it is well deserved. Congratulations.

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@RED911 2025-05-31

Way to go Anton!!! You deserve it. Thanks for teaching us so much.

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@rockinbobokkin7831 2025-05-31

Dude, it's because we love you. You created a mission of informing curious minds about scientific news , and keeping it grounded and rational. You deserve this.

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@NotJustBikes 2025-06-01

Congratulations! I'm glad to see YouTube science communicators getting official recognition like this! I'd also like to thank you for having a stable orbit and not threatening Earth.

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@jamescomstock7299 2025-05-31

You are definitely one of the best scientific communicators on the internet, and I love that apparently even some planetary scientists out are watching and like your videos. Definitely deserved.

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@BurtonShotton 2025-06-02

Anton, you have been responsible for introducing millions of people to real astronomy. You deserve it.

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@rackynjeff 2025-06-01

you’re comment section is literally one of the only places on YouTube I’ve seen that is lacking in some kind of hate. It’s very positive place, and that’s very refreshing. You bring us new knowledge daily. I’m happy you now have this honor of a naming. 😊

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@josecortez1268 2025-06-01

Parabéns pela distinção! Acho que você merece.

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