The Asteroid 15092 - ‘Beegees’ is named for the Gibb brothers, known as the pop music trio the Bee Gees. The three Gibb brothers who formed the trio were born on the Isle of Man. A bronze statue to honour the brothers was unveiled on Loch Promenade in Douglas in July 2021.
Although the Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man, they grew up in Manchester and then Australia where they lived only 100 kilometres from the Reedy Creek Observatory where this asteroid was discovered.
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The statue shows Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb walking back into the town of their birth, Douglas. They are depicted in the swagger of the 1977 video for Stayin' Alive. The song went to number one in The States and became one of six consecutive number one hits for the brothers, equalling The Beatles’ record.
The Bee Gees (the Gibb Brothers) “The Bee Gees, English-Australian pop-rock band that embodied the disco era of the late 1970s. In becoming one of the best-selling recording acts of all time, the Bee Gees (short for the Brothers Gibb) adapted to changing musical styles while maintaining the high harmonies, elaborate melodies, and ornate orchestrations that were their trademark. The principal members were Barry Gibb (b. September 1, 1946, Isle of Man), Robin Gibb (b. December 22, 1949, Isle of Man—d. May 20, 2012, London, England), and Maurice Gibb (b. December 22, 1949, Isle of Man—d. January 12, 2003, Miami, Florida, U.S.).
After emigrating to Australia with their parents, the Gibb brothers returned to England in the mid-1960s to further their singing careers. Their early recordings, including dramatic hits such as “Massachusetts” (1967), drew comparisons with the Beatles. The trio reached the Top Ten with “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” and “I Started a Joke” (both 1968) but split briefly after the relative failure of their concept album Odessa (1969). Once reunited, they had hits with “Lonely Days” (1970) and “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” (1971), but there were several hitless years before they returned to the charts with Main Course (1975). Recorded in Miami, grounded in rhythm and blues, and typified by the chart-topping single “Jive Talkin’,” it put the Bee Gees at the forefront of the disco movement, which their work on the soundtrack album Saturday Night Fever (1977) would popularize and in many ways define. The recording earned several Grammy Awards, including album of the year. Besides writing their own hits, such as “Stayin’ Alive,” the brothers composed tracks for other artists on the album, which would eventually sell 40 million copies. Subsequent albums, however, failed to match the success of their earlier work. The group disbanded on several occasions, most notably after the death of Maurice in 2003, though Barry and Robin reunited in 2009 and made several appearances. After Robin died in 2012, Barry occasionally performed and recorded as a solo act.
In 1997 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2015 received a Grammy for lifetime achievement. The documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart appeared in 2020.
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15092 Beegees 150592 Beegees has the provisional designation 1999 EH5, it is “a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 15 March 1999, by Australian amateur astronomer John Broughton as his Reedy Creek Observatory in Queensland, Australia. The S-type asteroid was named for the brothers of the Gibb family, known as the musical trio The Bee Gees.”
15092 is a core member of the Eos family of asteroids. The Eos family is the largest stony asteroid family in the outer main belt, consisting of nearly 10,000 known asteroids.
It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.9–3.1 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,908 days; semi-major axis of 3.01 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of of 0.03 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as 1975 TL1 at Crimea- Nauchnij in October 1975, more than 23 years prior to its official discovery observation at Reedy Creek.
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