On March 19th of 2008, Arthur C. Clarke passed away.  Earlier in that day [Earth time] there was an event, an explosion the likes of which has never been witnessed in human history.

A powerful stellar explosion detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye.

NASA Satellite Detects Naked-Eye Explosion Halfway Across Universe

It was a gamma ray burst of such magnitude that it was visible to the naked eye from across half the universe.

Later that evening, the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measured the burst's redshift at 0.94. A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object. A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago

For those following along at home, that is CRAAAZY far away.

Well this is all mind-boggling, but now there is an effort to get the event named after Arthur C. Clarke.  Why not the “Clarke Event?”

Sounds worthy to me.