What makes the naming of two asteroids for a couple a rare honour?

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The couple’s two-asteroid naming is rare because both partners were recorded together in the asteroid registry using their respective names.

Barbie Hsu and DJ Koo Jun-yup were each honoured with a separate asteroid name—208663 as Xuxiyuan (Hsu’s Chinese name) and 208664 as Koojunyup (Koo’s Korean name). This combination is described as a rare, joint tribute because the asteroid registry logged the couple together by naming two asteroids at the same time for the two individuals in the pair.
The two asteroids were officially approved under a couple-linked naming pattern
The International Astronomical Union’s Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature approved the name Xuxiyuan for asteroid 208663, and it also approved Koojunyup for asteroid 208664. The key point is that the naming did not honour only one celebrity; it applied to both members of the celebrity couple with two separate asteroid entries.
The wording of the tribute centres on them being honoured together in the registry
The tribute is characterised as one of the rare celebrity pairs to be honoured together in the asteroid registry. That rarity is tied to the fact that both partners’ names were entered as asteroid names as a matched couple set, rather than as unrelated or single-person recognitions.
The couple’s names were used in two different scripts and forms
The two asteroid names reflect each partner’s name as used in their own linguistic form: Hsu’s Chinese name for 208663 and Koo’s Korean name for 208664. The reference also notes that the female and male names came from the partners’ respective identities, making the “together recorded” situation unusual.
The proposal and observation history link the names to a single nomination
The proposal to name the asteroids came from Hong Kong astronomer Yang Guangyu, a former president of the Hong Kong Astronomical Society. Yang first observed the asteroid from Arizona’s Desert Eagle Observatory in 2002, and the approved naming later resulted in the couple being honoured with two asteroid entries.

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