Asteroids should have some way of defining new systematic names.

[WhirligigGirl]

It would be very useful to be able to have a different method of defining systematic names than simply Ast. 123-XYZ or [number]C/[Kerbal Name]. We can name individual discoverable asteroids, but not custom names for whole spawn groups of asteroids.

The bare minimum for me would be just the ability to add a suffix or affix to the existing asteroid and comet spawns, which would serve the function of differentiating spawn groups and asteroid part/compositions. But I have a wishlist for some other functionalities:

Rather than suggest a specific behavior, here's some use cases I have in mind.

• Use asteroids for minor moons, and name moons like: Jool Minor Moon 123-XYZ
• Or real world provisional naming for minor moons: "S/2005 P 1" (the first new satellite of Pluto discovered in 2005)
• Give real world provisional naming schemes:
• Give real world full naming schemes. A planet mod might have 1 Dres, 2 Drallas, 3 Druno, 4 Dresta as true celestial body asteroids, but no other asteroids, so subsequent asteroids would be generated as 5 [randomly generated name based on some table of affixes and suffixes or based on Kerbal names], 6 [random name], 7 [random name], and so on. (But it WON'T start with 1-4 because those are taken already. Have a "number exclusion" config for that?)
• Differentiating between asteroids of different compositions, such as in Whirligig World where this is possible. "Ast. 123-XYZ Type-C" would be a carbonaceous asteroid, "Ast. 123-XYZ Type-M" would be a metallic one.
• Differentiating asteroids between spawn groups. "MBA 123-XYZ" would be a Main Belt Asteroid and "SD 123-XYZ" would be Scattered Disk.
• Use the comet naming system, but with letters other than C or P (I for interstellar objects, A for misidentified asteroids, co-opt S for satellites)
• Use words other than kerbal names for comet naming. ("ATLAS," "PANSTARRS," "NEOWISE," are for objects discovered by observatories and spacecrafts rather than individuals. Also, RSS could use real human names.

[democat3457]

This sounds like a KopEx job and not something that should be in base Kopernicus... (outside scope)

[R-T-B]

It's certainly an enhancement request, at the very least, and may even be a KopEx thing yeah. Not closing just yet, but certainly slapping an "enhancement" label on this one and putting it at the bottom of the totem pole for now.