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What do you call your asteroids?


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What do you name your asteroids after?  

  1. 1. What do you name your asteroids after?

    • Stuff in Kerbal Space Program
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    • Stuff in the real world
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    • Stuff in other fictional works
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    • What I'm going to do with them
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    • Whatever I feel like
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    • I leave the default names
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I've only captured one asteroid so far, and since they were sat next to me at the time, I turned to my sister and her boyfriend for naming suggestions. The boyfriend suggested "Brian", and since my sister couldn't think of anything that could top that, I went with it.

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Asteroids. Damn, was that one already used? I, being a environmentalist, don't engage in the barbaric naming of asteroids. In fact, I pursue a capture and release program. While you all have shown your greed by hoarding asteroids, I simply collect them, study them and then release them back on their merry way. After all, who am I to interfere. I may very well have made it later for something.

You do realize that, in orbital mechanics, anything you release comes back to haunt you eventually? :)

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I have 6 asteroids around the kerbin system, in increasing order of size:

Ioun: a type A in a nearly polar orbit in a 1700kmx90km orbit

Junip: a type A currently being captured

Ukuun: a type B in a 20 degree 900km orbit around the mun.

Nimbus: a type C in a 45 degree retrograde orbit at 8700km

Koun: a type D in a 15 degree 80000kmx68km orbit.

Behmouth: a type E in a unstable orbit (it will encounter the mun and be ejected into kerbin, I should probably fix that...)

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Only investigated/captured a few asteroids so far. They are named:-

Detritus

Bluejohn

Mr Shine

Chrysoprase

Brick

I'm a big Pratchett fan. I had to think for quite a while to remember Brick and I can't think of any more trolls, so next 'roid will move on to a different naming convention I guess.

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I call my asteroid "MAH ASTEROID"

But that's it's "game name", I call it "AMSA" (A medium size asteroid)

Then I wanna make this a "series" of asteroids like ASSA (A small size asteroid) and ABSA (A big size asteroid) and AHSA (A huge size asteroid)

Then the other's names are gonna be named after random names, like Kuertos,Reliples,Dossium,Speros,etc.

Kuertos: I remembered "muertos" and changed it a bit

Reliples: "replies" became "Reliples"

Dossium: I really changed the word "Discussion"

Speros: I seen the word "AeroSPACE" somewhere and now this came to mind

Graverous: "Engraverwilliam", I changed your name a bit.

Enrocker: "Rocketry Enthusiast"

Postode: Join Date and Posts

Bloin: Blog and Join.

ETC: Et Cetera (not gonna use this as a name lol)

Allright, better not keep making random names and writing them all here.

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I started off naming them after the Kerbals who caught them. "Jeb's Rock", "Bill's Comet", "Bob's Secret Stash". But that got boring so I started inventing nonsensical names for them. "Flamboyant Kittenhuffer", "Ock of Rages". Then I started naming them after Maya royalty, such as "Chak Tok Ich'aak I", "Nuun Ujol Chaak", "B'alaj Chan K'awiil".

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I've just captured one today; I gave it a famous scientist's name, a number and a bracketed number denoting how many I've captured.

For example: NDgTyson 1701 [1] ; CSagan 4869 [2] ; INewton 1337 [3]

And so on and so forth.

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