Ryan’s Red Rock Trivia: Wednesday 8/3

Question: It was this day in Rock History in 2007, this guy handed in his astronomy PhD thesis – 36 years after abandoning it to join the band. Who was it?

Answer: It was Brian May of Queen! It was related to the females with an enlarged posterior and their ability to influence the rotation of the earth. May had recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of “zodiacal dust clouds”.