An asteroid for Banks

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I heard this on Thursday but forgot to post it here:

Pointed out to me by Dave WINOLJ and subsequently seen several places, someone has named a moderately large asteroid for Iain Banks - they left out the middle M he used for SF, but the details of the naming make it clear that his SF was the main thing that got him the distinction.

http://minorplanetcenter.net/blog/sci-fi-author-iain-m-banks-gets-asteroid-named-after-him/

http://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=iainbanks