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- Queen guitarist Brian May received a doctorate in astrophysics from London's Imperial College, 36 years after beginning his doctoral thesis. He had interrupted his studies to pursue a music career, later completing the 48,000-word thesis, which he submitted earlier in the month, and defending it during a three-hour examination.
- Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May announced that an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter had been named after Freddie Mercury in honor of what would have been his 70th birthday.
