Freddie Mercury, the late Queen singer, gets asteroid named after him to commemorate his birthday

Legendary vocalist Freddie Mercury was honored Monday on what would have been the Queen singer’s 70th birthday with a truly out-of-this-world tribute: a 2-mile-long asteroid currently orbiting around the sun at a speed of nearly 50,000 miles-per-hour. “I’m happy to be able to announce that the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has today designated Asteroid…