Scientists Name Asteroid After Dutch Legend Johan Cruyff

Chris Wright

24th, September 2010

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By Chris Wright

Hosannah! Dutch scientific journalist Carl Koppeschaar has finally succeeded in his quest to see an asteroid renamed in honour of Holland legend Johann Cruyff.

The asteroid was originally named ‘14282’ when it was discovered by Dutch astronomers back in the 1960s but now, thanks to Koppeschaar’s fine work, the completely inconsequential piece of space rock will be forever known as ‘Cruijff’.

The planetoid has a diameter of about nine kilometres and takes five years, three months and 18 days to ‘Cruyff turn’ around the sun.

The former Barcelona great now joins an elite group of players to have celestial bodies named after them, with Czech striker Josef Bican and Hungarian virtuoso Ferenc Puskas also seeing asteroids named in their honour.

Via Voetbal International

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  1. Ollie Irish says:

    Genius picture, Christov

  2. Chris says:

    Why thank you good Sir. I truly am God’s gift to MS Paint.

  3. Joe says:

    Ummmm, that would be Dutch astronomers, NOT “astrologists”. Astrologers don’t discover asteroids, but they might be able to determine if said asteroid has an effect on your future, and if you should be going out with that schmuck from the third floor office. Yeah, right.

  4. Joe says:

    Thanks a lot for the edit. Go ahead and delete this comment and/or my previous comment, since it wouldn’t make sense anymore.

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