However, this is not its real name - outside the Solar System, a few famous stars have official names, the rest just have to make do with a number to distinguish them from their twinkling neighbours. So, no chance of eternal fame there, then - give a star a name and nobody will know. Inside the Solar System, though, things are different, and an official name can be given to anything found whirling around the Sun. The International Astronomical Union even has a committee for this very purpose. This is where the asteroids come into the story.
Some people think there used to be a planet there, but it broke up into pieces.
In any event, there are more than 7000 of them, known as the asteroids, the largest of which is called Ceres, which is 933 km in diameter, and about twice as big as the next biggest. Hundreds more are discovered every year, all of which could be given names, and thus, after all, there is some hope of choosing a name for an otherwise anonymous heavenly body. No. 3834 was given the provisional name 1980 JE, which just indicates that it was the 5th minor planet to be discovered in the first half of May in that year. And so it might have remained, had not Zappa fan John Scialli embarked on a quest to get FZ recognised in the Heavens. John tells the full story in an article in Issue 11 of Italian fanzine Debra Kadabra .