Vote to name an asteroid Ubuntu

[fritzm]

The South African Astronomical Observatory is running a competition to name a recently discovered asteroid; the name is being selected by public vote from a short list of names, one of which is Ubuntu. I think it would be cool to have an asteroid named after a Linux distro, especially appropriate when its founder is an astronaut, so go vote online.

The website is http://www.nameourasteroid.org.za/ and voting is open until 31 January 2010.

Fritz

[heiowge]

I get a not found error...

[nelz]

There was a comma at the end of the URL, which I've removed (another reason to use url tags).

Is the asteroid brown?

[LeeNukes]

You do realise the word Ubuntu was around BEFORE the distro, right?

[Rhakios]

I get a not found error...

You need a better telescope.

[nelz]

You do realise the word Ubuntu was around BEFORE the distro, right?

And the original meaning has little to do with a barren lump of rock millions of miles from the nearest human being... which brings us back to the asteroid being brown as the most compelling argument for this

[M-Saunders]

a barren lump of rock

Let's not be so harsh -- it might be colonised! See this NASA photo for instance:

[towy71]

awh Mikey showing off your toys now

[Bazza]

Hi towy71...

I am glad you said toys and not kit... ;oO