Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts ***

Quick quiz question. If Dr Astro has been successful he will have the right to name the minor planet, what would you call it if it was your choice?

Newly discovered minor planets/asteroids are usually named after characters from mythology.

Alright, good news, bad news. Bad news first, I just confirmed this was not Rosetta. Now the good news, I have discovered a new asteroid that happened to be very close to Rosetta's expected location during the burn. There's another rock out there, and I'm the first to have seen it!! Not what I was originally going for, but it's a real discovery anyway, so I'll take it. I just took another image of it using an even larger telescope. I assumed for a moment that my alternative hypothesis was correct, that this was an undiscovered asteroid. I searched for it based on the assumption of the average speed and general direction of a typical main belt asteroid... and found it in the new image. I traced back along that line and found it faintly detected in the image I took yesterday. I'll finish doing to astrometry and orbit analysis using all of these images later tonight and submit the discovery to the minor planet center. This should mark my first official minor planet discovery as an amateur astronomer! At first glance though it appears to be moving in a manner consistent with a main belt asteroid.

So cool!!


Name it "Planet Bacon"

So cool!!


Name it "Planet Bacon"

Name it Marchioly

it keeps coming up for some reason

I would just call it "Tard"

I would just call it "Tard"


PS. I checked, the name is not taken!!

Tarderoid ???

I like it! Cool sounding name, it has something to do with the man in the iron mask?

K

And we should call it after the GLP mascot :) Mut!

Yes.

Although in the very first historical mentions of this mysterious man, witnesses attest that his face was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth, not iron.

I'm just thinking of black velvet cloth as the night-sky above us, which masks so very much.

I'd name it "Doom".

Then all the doom-tards are right when they say: "Dr. Astro found Asteroid Doom"

Congrats, Astro.

I can imagine the next RubeTube videos of BPEarthClown and 00SkyView: "NASA shill discovers Nibiru."

Planet Moran

Sorry

(10372) Moran is already taken. Maybe you could try BrianMoran.



Check your names here

[link to www.minorplanetcenter.net]

K

Should call it planet Sagan.

Name it Mariter or Jupars.