Asteroid Named for LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe

“During a visit to LSU earlier this month, Charles Elachi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, announced that an asteroid had been named for O’Keefe, putting him on a list that includes the likes of Connery, Beethoven and the others. He also presented O’Keefe with a plaque signifying the official designation of Asteroid 78905 as Asteroid Seanokeefe.”

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