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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 🤣

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