What do you call your asteroids?

[cantab]

We've rendezvoused with them, pushed them around, built stuff on them, set them down at KSC, and done any number of things with the asteroids - but what have we all called them? Do you rename them? Is there any sort of naming scheme?

Myself, I'm giving the ones I track a number like real asteroids, then a name of a Kerbal. So far I've only tracked three, so they're 1 Jebediah (a ~3000 ton class E that was truly awe-inspiring to rendezvous with), 2 Bill, and 3 Bob. Hopefully I won't run out of names!

[regex]

So far I've named them "explored [old name]", although there is one I circularized into a 300km orbit I named "Space for rent".

[Voculus]

Pet Rock.

[Jouni]

My names for asteroid classes A to E are Small Rock, Rock, Big Rock, Very Big Rock, and Very Very Big Rock. Captured individual asteroids get roman numbers after the class name.

[astropapi1]

When I finally get around capturing one, I'll probably name it something like Terry or Michael.

[Othuyeg]

I call them weird names, such as the Anabolic Asteroid.

[Capt. Hunt]

I named the first one I captured Miniminmus

[AcidSludge]

The first one I captured (Class D, it was about to swoosh by at Kerbin at approx. 450km) was named after a well known daredevil in the kerboverse - "Jeb's Rock". Jeb's Rock is now circulating Kerbin in an ovate, eccentric, but stable orbit somewhere in between 380km and 1.800.000km

[Levelord]

I called my first asteroid the Jebroid. O_o

[Aragosnat]

Well my first roid I named, "Fried Kentucky Cerbal," after the first three letters that was placed upon the roid spawner. That and if the engine kept going Bill sure would have been fried.

[Legendary Emu]

The first Asteroid I got (It's actually the scenario thing) I named it Potato.

[Nuke]

Pet Rock.

somebody needs to come up with parts that serve no purpose other than to comically decorate asteroids. kinda like a cosmic mr. potato head.

[godefroi]

I've been calling mine "Asteroid I", "Asteroid II", etc. I've got several captured now. I'm just waiting for some continent to cut funding, and then, it's BLAMO.

[xub313]

I'm not very creative so I have been naming my asteroids after constellations.

I currently have:

1. Cassiopeiae
   
2. Tucanae
   
3. Cephei
   
4. Carinae
   
5. Capricorni
   
6. Delphini
   
7. Doradus
   

[Uncle Mort]

I give them a the A to E classification followed by the day number they are due in Kerbin's Sol. i.e C-99 would be an medium sized asteroid due to arrive on day 99. If capture it them it gets renamed to a female name starting with the classification letter i.e. Clara.

[vger]

The first one I find that is on an impact trajectory, I think I shall name Congress.

[RogueMason]

I've only encountered one thus far, a Class C. I reached it with my X-71 shuttle (yeah, the one from Armageddon) and attempted to blow it up before it hit Kerbin, but it turns out I didn't have the capacity to deal with it.

I named it Lucky Punk and it smashed into Kerbin. I think my X-71 program needs to be thought through a little more...

[Superfluous J]

I've only played around with them (landing them, splashing them down, Hitting Mun with them, and most recently trying to glide one down with wings) so haven't had any need to name them.

When it comes time to actually keep one around, I think I'll try to find a name that fits its 3-letter designation. So CLY-123 would become Charley. Or something like that.

[Dizzle]

Big Bernie, a class D, and Gustavo, a class E.

[Pepper Industries]

I've only managed to rendezvous with one (I'm that bad). I built a small station/outpost on it and called the asteroid Keres, its real-world counterpart is Ceres, the first asteroid observed. I obviously replaced the 'C' with 'K' kerbal style

[Carter]

The White Whale.

I'm not sure what I'll name my next one. I'll probably go down the list of fat celebrities.

[Merinsan]

So far just "Asteroids".

I've yet to capture one. I'll probably not even rename them though, but I will be building a base on one, so that will be renamed.

Edited April 7, 2014 by Merinsan

[NecroBones]

None of the above.

I name them in this pattern: "Asteroid C YYYY-MM-DD XX" where "C" is the class, "YYYY-MM-DD" is the real-world date of capture, and "XX" is a 2-digit number starting at 01, in case I capture more than one in a day.

[Hyomoto]

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.

[Alymon]

somebody needs to come up with parts that serve no purpose other than to comically decorate asteroids. kinda like a cosmic mr. potato head.

There should be a challenge for getting an asteroid into a stable Kerbin orbit, then attaching parts to it to make it look like it has a face and have the community judge the best looking pet rock.