International Astronomical Union Officially Named An Asteroid After SOPHIE

[RAMROD 109,707]

Fans recently petitioned for a circumbinary exoplanet to be named after the late Sophie. The International Astronomical Union’s Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) has now officially named an asteroid after Sophie. Originally dubbed RE1, it was discovered in 1980 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in the Czech Republic. It’s now known as “Sophiexeon.”

 

https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bulletins/V001/WGSBNBull_V001_003.pdf#page=7
 

https://pitchfork.com/news/asteroid-named-after-sophie-by-the-international-astronomical-union/

 

[HorusRa2 5,005]

This asteroid was conjunct my north node in Sagittarius in my birth chart. 

Love you, Sophie. 

[sarcamstic 1,596]

i’m so glad to know SOPHIE’s legacy will live on forever in this way. she would love this. 

 

i’ve been missing her & her art more than ever recently, so this is amazing news. 

[holy scheisse 22,275]

That’s really sweet. 

[Chic 20,830]

She lives among the stars now