For our asteroid naming campaign at the Hayabusa2# mission, we got dinged by the IAU for suggesting that a non-mythological name for a near-Earth asteroid might be OK.
We said this because "Itokawa" (named for the founder of Japan rocketry) is an NEA. But mythological names are strongly preferred in case the asteroid becomes a threat to Earth & we have to get rough (better to attack "Ares" than "Mr Rogers").
So we added a note... but passive aggressively hint we'll be ignoring for a year 🤣
@elizabethtasker
I misunderstood. Due to your former survey for none-mythological asteroids I offered that weiqi term. The problem with mythological demands is beeing almost only western or european mythological. However JAXA should take them from all the world. However I am not sure if you get much offers here. But weiqi terms could be ancient, too, due to weiqi beeing oldest game. And myths from Nippon and China there are plenty.
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