My Brother and Pluto -by T.K. Thorne
Well, this is something that doesn’t happen every day!
My brother had a “small planet” (asteroid) named after him! (I know I’m not supposed to overuse exclamation points, but I can’t help it.)
He earned this through his work on the New Horizons project—a NASA mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt.
I am thrilled to announce [drum roll, please] the minor planet: Danielkatz!
I have a special appreciation of Pluto because many years ago, my first published short story (a big deal for a writer) was about an astronaut who crashed on Pluto. Here is a snippet.