You discover an asteroid. What do you name it?

[Naten]

You send pictures to the observatory computer after you use the telescopes a bit. Congrats, you discover an asteroid. It's not by any means the best thing to discover, there are freaking millions of them, but it's a good start.

You get to name it, of course. You can name it your last name (if you're Smith, then do us a favor and don't ), but that's not creative.

You can't name it something expletive, your name would get rejected.

So, what do you name it?

I'll start. I'll name mine Tony, after Tony Probe.

[mythbusters844]

I'll name mine Jebediah. Simple.

[Swifty]

I'd name it

Splat

[Whirligig Girl]

If you discover a comet it's named after you. If you discover an asteroid you name it. I will name it Yahweh or maybe Allah. Or to put it even simpler, God. Why? Almost all celestial objects are named after gods, so what about the Jewish/Islamic/Christian god? I'd do this really just to make people rage, because I'm a bit of a troll to religious people.

[Soda Popinski]

Kraken.

My favorite asteroid name is "99942 Apophis" because the discoverers were Stargate SG1 fans.

[TimMartland]

I would troll all the conspiracy theorists by calling it

-WARNING- debug4535//blockedbyuserCIA//COLLISION:COURSE;DETECTED

[NikkyD]

Dottie.

(lets see who gets it )

[Superfluous J]

Gilly.

Or Kasteroid just to make some people mad

[sgt_flyer]

Dottie.

(lets see who gets it )

She's a vicious lifesucking b**** from which there's no escape

[CleverClothe]

First thing that popped into my mind: http://xkcd.com/327/

Perhaps annoying Wikipedia with 999546 B'g]R''k.

[Klingon Admiral]

I would name the asteroid "No Asteroid". Or "This is no Moon".

[goldenpeach]

Any name related to KSP: if I discover an asteroïd it's because KSP gave me the motivation of searching it.

If I feel like trolling, I would probably arite a program to output randoms lettera just to be sure that the name is long and complicated.

( or calling it "asteroïd" to make people confused about wether we are talking about any asteroïd or talking about the asteroïd "asteroïd")

[TechnicalK3rbal]

Gilly.

(10chars)

Edit:or Minmus.

[DaveofDefeat]

I'd name it "planet".

[Kerbin Dallas Multipass]

Wonder if they will accept "that will destroy Earth"

[Naten]

I'd also name another of mine this:

BLOCKED

XXXXX

XXXXX

XXXXX

[Skyler4856]

Kerbin or dres

[Idobox]

Offler, or Spaghetti Monster

[Winter Man]

First thing that popped into my mind: http://xkcd.com/327/

Perhaps annoying Wikipedia with 999546 B'g]R''k.

Y'know Randall Munroe's got an asteroid named after him?

I'd name mine Scrambles. The Death Dealer.

[FanaticalFighter]

I'll probably name it Rubik's Asteroid. xD

[NASAFanboy]

Depends. If I was feeling romatic, I'd name it like this...

"[PARTNER NAME HERE], Will You Marry Me?", then proceed to turn both of us into overnght internet celebrities and become the two people that is hated by all Wikipedia editors.

[Kryten]

I'll probably name it Rubik's Asteroid. xD

Already done. Minor planet (133250) Rubik.

[NQMT]

I'd name my asteroid "DAVE!".

[J.Random]

YAURIS (Yet Another Useless Rock In Space).

[Scotius]

Well, we have Uranus, so just to out-troll this name i would call my asteroid Urmomma.