One thing that has always amused me is looking at maps of places such as Africa or Australia. Both have these really bizarre place names, the strangest I've heard being a place in New South Wales called Woolloomooloo. However, despite these exotic, weird names that you know come from some ancient language, you get these really quaint, almost sweetly naive place names made up by explorers. The best example of this is probably some remote waterfalls in the midst of the African continent. They are situated deep within this exotic, New World of lions, savannahs and amazing landscapes, and what did the explorer David Livingstone call them? The Victoria Falls. It just looks almost humourously out of place on a map that these waterfalls should bear such a twee name.

So, continuing in that strain, I imagine the crew of this exploratory pre-dreadnought style ship would do much the same thing. Under Captain Livingstone, they venture forth to the most outlandish, dangerous reaches of the most hazardous asteroid field, find an amazing, large asteroid, explore it, and then name it something ridiculously out of place. Like the Victoria Asteroid. :D