Skip to comments.Ocasio-Cortez has an Asteroid named after her, here's why.
Posted on 06/28/2018 12:27:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
As 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez begins her meteoric rise in politics observers have pointed out that she has an asteroid named after her, called 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.
"It's true! Science was my first passion," she tweeted on June 12, adding that the asteroid was named in honour of longevity experiments she conducted out of Mt. Sinai Health System in New York.
"My research won 2nd place globally in Microbiology at @intel ISEF," she said in the tweet, referring to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. "At [Boston University] I started as science major, changed to Econ ???? #nerdalert"
The asteroid in question was discovered on November 20, 2000, by the Lincoln Observatory Near-Earth Asteroid Research.
Not anyone can officially name an asteroid: That duty belongs International Astronomical Union, the world's official record-keeper of celestial objects. According to IAU rules, the person or people who discover an asteroid get 10 years to suggest a name.
Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR along with her boss Grant Stokes so they had the naming rights to all the asteroids the program found.
Evans and Stokes decided to keep things "honorable" by handing out asteroid names to the winners of top science and engineering fairs for students.
Evans said naming "safe" asteroids after students was very deliberate.
"We want to assure all the students that their asteroid will never impact Earth," Evans said.
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“Asteroid”, huh? How about a hemorrhoid named after her?
Wow, she went to BU and still ended up an antisemitic witch.
That’s a serious character flaw.
Doesn’t mean she’ll be a star.
Have the Space Force send her to visit it.
An asteroid is a lifeless, cold lump of nothing. Fitting.
Next up: the Nobel Prize.
Why is “Jenifer” only spelled with one n?
“begins her meteoric career”?lol, she won one race, whoop-de-doo. Identity politics has consequences.
Have Space Force send her to visit it.
You know who is crying, sobbing and inconsolable that someone got ahead of him to have an asteroid named after them?
Governor Jerry Brown, aka MOONBEAM.
The space aliens’ emanations in the form of secret moonbeam messages told Jerry he would be next-—not her.
no one wants to have sex with an asteroid either
Why is there an "L" in lisp?
Watch the propaganda here - she didnt win an all encompassing science fair. She placed 2nd in her division (microbiology - 18 divisions in all ) of her REGION.
Now she still won $1500 but I havent found the original study yet (longevity studies of anti-oxidants) but this doesnt mark her as a super genius.
She also sent $50 to International Star Registry, and a record of a star with her name on it is stored in the U.S. Copyright Office.
My son works as a technician on a solar observatory satellite that takes frequent images of the son. They told him when he started that he got naming rights to any comets he discovered.
Apparently it’s happened, but he never got one. Tomorrow’s his last day on that job. Moving on to control an entire array of satellites.
I saw an interview of her. She was asked if she wanted to impeach Trump and she said there was a strong case to do so. The reporter then asked her on what grounds and she said there was a strong case to do so. Nothing is there.
Wait, she is a former patient? Escaped?
Because she’ll be incredibly destructive?
I was thinking a dingleberry would be even more appropriate
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