Mister Rogers was not just a TV star. Really? Today, he is an asteroid.
The soft-spoken, sweater-wearing kids' TV host, who died February 27 of stomach cancer, has been immortalized in astronomy ledgers as the namesake of Misterrogers, the asteroid formerly known as Number 26858. The designation was announced this week by the International Astronomical Union, the France-based organization.

Misterrogers, the asteroid, begins with John G. Radzilowicz, director of the Henry Buhl Jr. Planetarium & Observatory at the Carnegie Science Center in Fred Rogers' hometown of Pittsburgh. He submitted the nomination for the redesignation of Number 26858 the day Fred Rogers passed away at the age of 74.

If old Number 26858, in orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, were to go off course and head straight for Earth, newscasters would warn, "Misterrogers is going to kill us!"

Or what about "Misterrogers is entering Uranus!"

Send in Bruce Willus and Ben Affleck to drill and blow Misterrogers.