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In August, the International Astronomical Union's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature - an international organization responsible for the naming of asteroids and comets - formally approved the designation and gave Tsai's discovery a permanent number "215080."
It was the first asteroid discovered by an amateur Taiwanese astronomy buff to have won international recognition.

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Taiwanese amateur astronomer discovers new asteroid

An amateur astronomer who discovered an asteroid earlier this year presented a model of his new discovery to Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu Monday to share it with all residents of the southern Taiwan port city.
Tsai Yuan-sheng discovered the asteroid along with an assistant at the Lulin Observatory on Yushan, also known as Jade Mountain, March 20 and tentatively named it "Kaohsiung" after his hometown.
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