00:00An asteroid first spotted by a Taiwanese observatory has been formally named after veteran Taiwanese writer Huang Chun-ming.
00:07The 91-year-old author attended the naming ceremony.
00:22Only around 20,000 asteroids have formal names, all given after approval by the International Astronomical Union.
00:30The Luling Observatory, affiliated with National Central University, has discovered around 800 asteroids and has given them some of them
00:39Taiwan-themed names.
00:41Huang is the fourth Taiwanese literary figure to get a named asteroid.
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