Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008
Oliver Sacks in Orbit
By Arnold Wolfson
In response to A Summer of Madness (September 25, 2008)
To the Editors:
Your piece by Oliver Sacks on Hurry Down Sunshine [ NYR, September 25] was luminous in its insight, and showed all the more why he deserved the recent honor conferred on him by the Committee of Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union, which has named a small asteroid after him. Asteroid 84928 is now known as Oliversacks.
Arnold Wolfson
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania