How scientists named insects, animals and places after 13 Pop Star and Celebrities

It is no longer news that naming your pet in Nigeria attracts Police arrest, jail and prison just like Joe who named his Dog after Buhari.
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But what you are going to see here will surprise you as Scientists have named 13 different things after celebrities!

1. Asteroid named after Freddie Mercury

An asteroid has been named after the late great Queen singer Freddie Mercury to honour what would have been his 70th birthday on 5 September. It might seem like an extraordinary gesture, but Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury is by no means the only object in space - or on earth for that matter - named after a rock star. Scientists and astronomers, paleontologists and arachnologists count many music fans among their number, meaning all manner of strange things, whether animal, vegetable or mineral, are named after their favourite musicians.
Here are 12 examples of unexpected things in the known (and unknown) world that have taken the names of famous musicians.


2. Fossils named after Mick Jagger

Headline writers the world over were presented with an open goal when news broke that a prehistoric fossil had been named after Mick Jagger. Jaggermeryx naida, or 'Jagger's water nymph', apparently lived around 19 million years ago in Africa, and is so named because of its large protruding lips. "I'm a huge Stones fan," said Dr Ellen Miller, of Wake Forest University in North Carolina. "Some of my colleagues suggested naming the new species after Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, because she also has famous lips, but for me it had to be Mick."
And The Rolling Stones singer isn't the only rock star who's had a fossil named after him. Each member of the Sex Pistols and the Ramones has a trilobite named in their honour, while scientists called a 'muscular' fossil fireworm, Rollinschaeta myoplena, after thick-necked punk menace Henry Rollins.

3. Ferns named after Lady Gaga

We've heard of celebrities being named after Ferns (Cotton, Britton...), but never a fern being named after a celebrity. In fact, in the case of Lady Gaga, it's more like 19 species of fern, all part of the same genus. "We wanted to name this genus for Lady Gaga because of her fervent defence of equality and individual expression," said Professor Kathleen Pryer of Duke University. "And as we started to consider it, the ferns themselves gave us more reasons why it was a good choice." The plants are hermaphroditic, or "bisexual" if you will, and the letters GAGA were stamped into its DNA. In other words, they were fern that way.


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