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A Star for Me? And I Don't Mean a Rating...

Prompt: A star has been named after you. What an honor! What is special about your star?

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Geez, what an honor indeed! To have a star named after me is unbelievable. I look at it this way. I might now be in the same class with the astrophysicists who discovered or saw for the first time some star or heavenly body. A Google search gave me a few names:

Scholz's Star is a late-M dwarf + T-type brown dwarf (M9.5 + T5) system, discovered in 2013 by Ralf-Dieter Scholz

Teegarden's Star, a nearby star discovered in 2003 in archived data taken years earlier for NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program, named in honor of Bonnard J. Teegarden, the NASA astrophysicist.

SN 1604, a supernova, was known as Kepler's Star when first observed, after Johannes Kepler.

Plaskett's Star (formal name HR 2422) with a total mass of about one hundred times that of the Sun, named after John Stanley Plaskett, the Canadian astronomer

Herschel's Garnet Star, also known as Mu Cephei, is a red supergiant particularly remarkable for its deep red color, first described by William Herschel.

I only copied a few examples here for the list is huge; however, Joy’s Star? I don’t know but there is that danger of me getting a big head from this. Also, someone--once upon a time--told me that anything with the noun Joy in it sounded like porn. Put that together with the noun star and…Oh never mind!

Maybe I should settle for an asteroid instead. An asteroid is more down to or rather closer to our earth, and it doesn’t contain any connotations like the word star. Besides, my first and forever favorite book character, The Little Prince, had his own asteroid, too.

Joy’s asteroid. Hmmm…That sounds much better. Maybe I can even cultivate a rose bush on it…just like the Little Prince.