Cary has completed his metamorphosis into a minor planet. He is too powerful, we are doomed.

Honestly, that is a valid bragging point. Like, not just do you have a planet named after you, but it's because of your accomplishments, not just because you're the grandchild of an astronomer.

Me in 2081 living at the CaryHuang Planet

Maybe the reason TWOW season 1 took so long to complete was because Cary said he wanted it to be finished in 2-3 years, when in reality he meant 2-3 Caryhuang years

cary turned into a normal kid, the creator of the scale of the universe, the precious miracle BFDI, and now a minor planet?? you're a legend bro.

Cary having a planet named after himself is strangely fitting

One small step for Cary, one giant leap for Carykind!

Hey Cary! I've always wondered, how do you guys count the votes to BFDI? With this many voters, there's no way to manually count them nowadays, it's been on my mind for years!

Going from Needle's Cake to this is a major accomplishment

Imagine being called fat by an astronomer, but in the most wholesome, long-lasting way possible. By literally having your name written in the cosmos, as a 60 *10^9 mTons asteroid. If I had to be fatshamed by a nerd, that'd be the best way I could think of.

As a big fan of BFDI and Astronomy, this is perfect for me

Pretty interesting how due to the 2000s drop off in names you are one of the youngest people to have a planet named after them, of course there's younger but that's still kinda wild. Maybe 2001 me will be there someday haha

Now I'm waiting for Cary to make a planet object show with Caryhuang as the host. Ngl, I would watch that.

This video is exactly 110.125 Caryhuang minutes long, or 1 hour 50 minutes and 7.5 seconds. That makes it the length of a Caryhuang movie!

It's really wholesome knowing Scott Manley has a planet named after him. He absolutely deserves it edit: wait YOU made scale of the universe??? mind blown

Scale of the Universe was responsible for getting a lot of younger people interested in science. You've earned this.

As an astronomy and BFDI fan, I'm happy you got a planet named after you

"That's my 6th favorite planet"

Thats so cool. Even if its a minor planet, I certainly dont know anyone else who's got one named after them! You absolutely deserve it for the scale of the universe, that tool must've inspired thousands or even more to become astrologers, and entertained millions more.

Since you did mention Ceres originally being categorised as a planet, I decided to explain some of the history there (and this ended up so much longer than the two paragraphs I had in mind explaining this my goodness...). In the past, especially when we're talking about times where astronomy and astrology were very intertwined, people only needed to differentiate between celestial objects that did not move in the sky (back then they were called "fixed stars" but now that category would not just include stars but also things like very distant nebulas that appear star-like to the naked eye, or star clusters or even galaxies) and celestial objects that did move in the sky. Those objects were called "wanderers" in Greek - or planetai, aka, where the word for planet comes from. The Sun was considered a planet by those terms, as was the Moon, and back then the only planets that mattered were the Sun, the Moon and the 5 planets that can be seen with the naked eye (so Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), for a total of 7. To be extremely technical - everything was called a star, planets were called "wandering stars" but often just shortened to "wanderers". Comets were called "long-haired stars"! The 16th century and wider acceptance of the heliocentrist model showed a change in what was defined as a planet - mainly, a planet was an object that orbited the Sun (or orbited something that orbited a Sun). The Earth was now a planet and the Sun was no longer one. The Moon is a bit more complicated. Copernicus in the 16th century redefined the Moon from a planet to basically it's own thing - he didn't rename the Moon to anything, he just emphasised that the Moon isn't a planet as it revolves around the Earth. However, even when new Jupiter moons were discovered by Galileo in the early 17th century, he still named them planets originally. It was Kepler who created the term "satellite" to refer to objects that revolve around planets - a term that modernly is now divided into natural satellites and artificial satellites. There is some new definition emerging as well, such as planets being considered satellites around their respective stars now! Back to asteroids - asteroids were not discovered in ancient times (only 4 Vesta is really visible with the naked eye but it is too dim to have been considered notable and often isn't even noticeable, you'd need pretty good conditions to find it) and so, the etymology for asteroid is more recent. Because of how the (then) discovered asteroids seemed to act, they were called "star/planet-like" or asteroids by William Herschel because asteroids acted both like stars (acting more like a point of light than a disc of light) and like planets (they moved around). Why star/planet-like? Well, the term is coming from the star part of fixed stars/wandering stars, so it's actually a pretty clever name that's simultaneously calling asteroid "star-like" and "planet-like". Before the rename, they were still called planets - and even with the rename, there were arguments if an asteroid is simply a name for a small planet or if it's a new object altogether. Even nowadays there's uncertainty in how we define a moon vs an asteroid vs simple *objects*. Is every particle in Saturn's ring a moon? They all orbit around Saturn after all. Or are they asteroids? Or are they just something else? Pluto being reclassified to a dwarf planet is part of the process of defining planetary objects. Heck, even the term "planetary object" itself is carrying the old meaning of a planet (excluding stars) - we're creating newer wider terms and changing old terms to be stricter but even in strictness, there's still pretty blurry lines at play. But that's a good thing - it means there's development and research and that there's care being put in to make sure everyone is on the same page when discussing science. I, for one, am extremely excited for the next planetary object to be discovered that will destroy the current terminology that we use (jokingly, of course)!