Month: August 2011

Cruising through the Milky Way in your reconnaissance craft, your sensors pick up a powerful radio beacon. Altering your course to take a closer look, you find not a ship in distress, but an ultradense sphere of neutrons, packing a sun’s worth of mass into something the size of a city.

In a function hosted by Overstrand Mayor Councilor Nicolette Botha-Guthrie on 10th August 2011 a ceremony was held to announce the naming of  the newly-discovered asteroid Hermanus. In the words of John Saunders, Chairman of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre, this is the story of how Hermanus got its own asteroid: