Visitor From Beyond the Stars!

[stickmaker]

 

Well, at least from outside our star system:

http://spaceref.com/asteroids/something-visited-our-solar-system-from-interstellar-space.html

There are currently no formal rules for naming such objects. I suggest using names from mythology and folklore - and possibly even history - of famous travelers. 

For this one I suggest Odysseus. 

Comments

[kengr]

Those are what we use or naming stuff *inside* the solar system.

I think we should name them after SF characters who've traveled outside the solar system.

Since this is the first, I'd name it Seaton for Dr. Richard Seaton of Skylark fame.. Though you could argue for Duquesne, because he did do it first, even if it was an accident and seaton had to rescue him.

[kengr]

Oh, btw, have you read Ryk Spoor's Arenaverse trilogy. It's got a lot of Doc smith references :-)