Freddie Mercury (Photo by Carl Lender; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Former Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was honored with his own asteroid by the International Astronomical Union and the Minor Planet Center on Sept. 5, what would have been the singer’s 70th birthday.

Bandmate and astrophysicist Brian May made the announcement in a video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday.

Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid was discovered by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne in 1991, the year of Mercury’s death. It reflects only about 30 percent of light making it difficult to see without a powerful telescope. The asteroid is three-and-a-half kilometers (about two miles).

According to The Guardian, the asteroid orbits around the sun at 20 kilometers per second and won’t come closer than 350 million kilometers to Earth.

“It’s just a dot of light, but it’s a very special dot of light,” May says in the video.

Other famous names to receive their own asteroid include Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie.

Check out Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury’s orbit diagram here.