DJ Koo and Barbie Hsu
The late Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu, wife of DJ Koo of the Korean dance duo CLON, now has an asteroid named after her.
Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported that the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature had approved the name Xuxiyuan (Hsu's Chinese name) for asteroid 208663.
The name was proposed by Hong Kong astronomer and former Hong Kong Astronomical Society President Yang Guangyu, who first observed the asteroid in 2002 from the Desert Eagle Observatory in Arizona.
Yang has previously named asteroids he discovered after prominent stars, including Leslie Cheung, Teresa Teng, Andy Lau, Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong.
