Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: I'm proud that I was able to have a small part in helping to get an asteroid ...

I'm proud that I was able to have a small part in helping to get an asteroid officially named for Wilfred Buck a few months ago! https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=wilfredbuck&view=VOP

I tried to use his Cree name, as he requested, but there's an (arbitrary and rather colonialist) limit on how many characters you can have. So, it really should be asteroid Pawami Nikititicikiw (which means "dream keeper").

Though I suppose the whole idea of naming asteroids after people is rather colonialist! Lots of decolonizing to do...