And I will shine the rings round Saturn or roll stones with Sisyphus

[sovay]

I appear to have named a satellite.

Mike Brown rocks, and so do the Etruscans.

And this was—to my great surprise—already a good day!

Comments

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just...wow. Congratulations!

And seconded on the telescope. Though I guess your telescope will probably not cut it even to see Orcus, which I read is approaching aphelion at the moment.

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you! I was genuinely expecting someone else to have thought of it first!

Though I guess your telescope will probably not cut it even to see Orcus, which I read is approaching aphelion at the moment.

Right. Observatory it is.

[selidor]

If you want to take a look, you would need to point a telescope at these ra/dec coordinates: 09 39 17.70 -05 34 38.1 (which I got from JPL Horizons), from about 9 pm EST. As Orcus is 19th magnitude, it still won't be particularly easy to see, unfortunately...