Thank you for everybody that has signed the petition so far and shared it and supported it! Well done well done well done! When it was shared in the big EN group on Facebook that I administrate, it got some resistance from some people who felt it was frivolous in light out terrible things going on in the world. While I understand that viewpoint, this petition is still important. I wrote a couple of viewpoints on that and I’ll share one here if anyone cares to read it. 

Why a Petition for an Asteroid Matters (Yes, Even Now)

In a world full of war, chaos, and suffering, it’s easy to dismiss anything that doesn’t look like activism as “nonsense.” But dreams are not nonsense. Art is not nonsense. Cultural memory is not nonsense.

Blixa Bargeld’s work has always looked to the stars—literally. He’s woven cosmology, physics, and the poetry of space into his lyrics for decades. Naming a celestial body after him is not ego-stroking; it’s a tribute to a lifetime of fusing artistic vision with scientific wonder.

Honoring artists like Blixa helps preserve the legacy of thinkers who challenge, inspire, and awaken us. He doesn’t “want to conquer space.” He wants to speak into it. And many of us hear him.

This isn’t a distraction from global suffering—it’s a parallel stream of meaning-making. One does not cancel the other out. You can care about peace and poetry. About ending wars and naming stars.

We don’t need less dreaming—we need better dreams.
And Blixa has given us a few of those.

— The Blixa Bargeld Appreciation Society