Look up to the skies and (try) to see the Freddie Mercury asteroid

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Look up to the skies and (try) to see the Freddie Mercury asteroid
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LONDON — Queen frontman Freddie Mercury made a bold bid for astro**mical immortality in the 1970s with the line (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM), "I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky, like a tiger defying the laws of gravity." (He then dashed any credibility to his claim by mixing his metaphors, "I'm travelling at the speed of light, I wanna make a supersonic man out of you", but we'll gloss over that.)

Professional space nut and sometimes Queen guitarist Brian May has overlooked his bandmate's astrophysical faux pas by paying tribute to him in a YouTube post, in which he an**unces 'Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury’ has been named in Mercury's ho**ur. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/05/freddie-mercury-asteroid-name/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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