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Once upon a time, there was an asteroid called 12818 and one named 8353.
These two asteroids, which were discovered over the space of seven years and across different hemispheres, recently made their closest approach yet to Earth in September. Nothing remarkable about that, you might imagine. But what if we told you that the names given to these astronomical wonders were — wait for it — Tomhanks and Megryan. Truth can be stranger than fiction or, in this case, the movies.
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Move over, Banksy – there’s a new avant garde graffiti artist prowling the streets. Behold, Hanksy! via Wooster Collective
Previously on Neatorama: T.HANKS: The Tom Hanks Trash Bin
Scout checked out Rye Playland, the amusement park where Tom Hanks found the Zoltar machine in the movie Big. However, Zoltar has been replaced by another machine that can make you big.
There are more pictures of the park as it appears now at Scouting New York. Link -via The Daily What
The CERN Large Hadron Collider had to be taken out of commission last September for retooling after helium leaked out and caused £20 million in damage. Who gets to turn on the button to start it up when repairs are finished? Movie star Tom Hanks!
Hanks was approached about the move while filming his latest film Angels and Demons in which he plays a Harvard University academic investigating a plot to annihilate the Vatican with 0.25 grams of antimatter stolen from Cern.
Steve Myers, Cern’s director of accelerators and technology, told Nature News that he gave the actor a tour of the laboratory on February 13 and asked him if he would return for the switch-on, to which the actor agreed.
Cern’s head of communications, James Gillies, confirmed that the facility would be delighted to have Hanks there to restart the collider, which organisers hope will take place in June.
Previously: Trouble at the LHC
Zoomdoggle took a photo of this Tom-tastic trash bin at his local pizza parlor:
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