Jabberwock is asteroid #7470 and also known as 1991 JA. Jabberwock was discovered by Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) at the Oohira Station of the Nihondaira Observatory. Jabberwock is a member of the Hirayama-family Vesta.

Jabberwock is named after the main theme of the Jabberwocky, which is a nonsense poem found in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. This nonsense poem describes also some other characters, that are lending their names to asteroids. In illustrations and movies is the Jabberwock usually depicted as a creature, that looks like a zombie-dragon. Lewis Carroll had once explained himself that the Jabberwock is derived from the verb to jabber and the poem describing the Jabberwock not meant as anything else than to list nonsense words, only showing what you can do in the English language.

An astrological force showing nonsense in poetry would be useless and so would an astrological force representing zombie-dragons. So Jabberwock must hint to linguistics in general and to the English language in particular. By the way, TARDIS could also have to do with linguistics because translating automatically and correctly is one of the features of the name-lending time machine. In particular could TARDIS hint to the Latin language.