Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample | CNN

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Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample | CNN
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They should really specify 'The band Queen'

Ya brian didn't make sense I guess so it was just subliminally swapping it for brain and I thought the title was referring to queen elizabeth's brain

Which would have only been slightly weirder than the guitarist from the band Queen helping.

Read the title as "Queen's brain may help..." which puzzled me I must say

Read the title as "Queen Brian" and simply thought "about time"

It's a given since he got his Sir Brian title from King Charles :p

Nice to see him make good use of his degree. I always thought it was cool that there are two major British bands- Queen and Dare- with Astrophysicists in them.

In October 2006, May re-registered for his doctorate at Imperial College, and he submitted his thesis in August 2007

the revised thesis (titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud")[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced

In 2020, he participated in the team that contributed the stereography images of numerical simulations of asteroid disruptions and re-accumulations in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications

It actually sounds like he's pretty busy with the science these days.

Admittedly, I haven't been paying close attention to Brian May's physics career.

the revised thesis (titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud")[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced

The king of procrastination

"And Brian doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.
He's got a daytime job, he's doing all right."

and he wrote music that helped Flash Gordon save the Universe

Rock 'n' Roller in the streets
Astrophysicist in the sheets