{"id":45221,"date":"2017-01-20T09:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45221"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:55:33","slug":"asteroid-named-after-trek-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/01\/asteroid-named-after-trek-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Named after Trek Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid <em>391257<\/em> has been named in honor of a <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> actor.<\/p>\n<p><em>NASA<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Ron Baalke<\/strong> made the announcement via <em>Twitter<\/em>. &#8220;Asteroid <em>391257<\/em> has been named in honor of <strong>Wil Wheaton<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Congratulations Wil!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>391257WilWheaton<\/em> is located near the constellation <em>Canis Minor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton isn&#8217;t the only Trek actor to have an asteroid named after him. Other actors so honored include <strong>George Takei, Nichelle Nichols<\/strong>, and <strong>Gene Roddenberry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as it gets dark here, I&#8217;m going to walk out into my backyard, look up into the sky, just a little above <em>Sirius<\/em>, and know that, even though I can&#8217;t see it with my naked eye, it&#8217;s out there, and it&#8217;s named after me,&#8221; said Wheaton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid 391257 has been named in honor of a Star Trek: The Next Generation actor&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8497,2452],"class_list":["post-45221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asteroid","tag-wheaton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheatonAsteroid012017.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45223,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221\/revisions\/45223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}