91.5 Krcc's Looking Up

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout tells us a bit about the naming process for asteroids. During another 80's musical interlude, I wondered how asteroids are named. Asteroids are those left-over parts of the cloud that formed our solar system. These planetesimals didn't quite make it to a full planet and literally are our debris field among the planets. There are more than 794,000 known minor planets known.