8749 Beatles

8749 Beatles (1998 GJ10) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1998 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory. It was named after the famous 1960s pop and rock group The Beatles. Each of the individual Beatles also have asteroids named after them.

Famous quotes containing the word beatles:

    We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
    John Lennon (1940–1980)