4659 Roddenberry

4659 Roddenberry is a main-belt asteroid named for Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. It was discovered in the southern sky on March 2, 1981, at the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales by S.J. "Bobby" Bus.

Roddenberry has an orbital revolution of three years and 236 days.

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Famous quotes containing the word roddenberry:

    “Space—the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
    —Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991)