It’s No ‘Space Oddity’: Mile-Wide David Bowie Asteroid To Forever Float In Outer Space

By Chris Spears
DENVER (CBS4) – David Bowie is not only a rock legend that will live on in the hearts and minds of many, but is also a giant rock floating through space.
According to NASA’s Solar System Exploration group, there’s a mile-wide space rock named in honor of Bowie that serenely floats in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The asteroid was discovered on December 21, 2008 by F. Hormuth at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.
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