In Deep Impact it was called Wolf-Biederman. In Seeking a Friend for the End of the World it was called Matilda. In Armageddon it didn’t have a name. Now NASA agrees that if an asteroid is going to kill us all, we’d better give it a bitchin’ name, especially since we can no longer count on Michael Clarke Duncan to save us.
NASA is calling for students around the world to help name an asteroid that could hit us in 2182. The celestial body is currently known as asteroid 1999 RQ36, which is catchy, but sounds too much like a robot that a young Anakin “Yippee” Skywalker would build. So it’s up to you, students around the world.
But judging by how these naming contests usually go, it’s probably just going to be named Stephen Colbert.