Brian Eno will get asteroid named after him, receives Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication
Fifty years in the past, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, successfully opening up an entire new universe of risk. Brian Eno, for his half, is ensuring the landmark anniversary gained’t go unnoticed. The English rocker is reissuing his seminal Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks and pairing the remastered assortment with a brand new LP, For All Mankind. In flip, the science world has acknowledged the ambient pioneer with a sequence of accolades this week — together with giving him his personal asteroid.
On Monday, Eno attended the celebrated science pageant Starmus V, the place he was offered with the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. The Right here Come the Heat Jets mastermind obtained the award celebrating well-liked science at a world degree alongside this yr’s different recipients: Elon Musk and Todd Douglas Miller’s new documentary movie, Apollo 11.
What’s extra, a Southwest Analysis Institute astronomer named Marc Buie, in affiliation with the Worldwide Astronomical Union and the Minor Planet Centre, has as we speak named a newly found asteroid after Brian Eno. Initially titled “81948 (2000 OM69)”, the asteroid’s new title is considerably of a mouthful, because it’s Eno’s actual full title: “Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno.” Fortunately, the house rock will probably be referred to easily as “Eno” for brief.
Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks and For All Mankind albums are due out on July 19th by way of UMC. Most not too long ago, Eno’s collaborator Daniel Lanois shared the Origins of “Capsule” with us earlier than it was formally launched as we speak.
