Asteroids named after people called Tao
馃懚 Tao as a baby name馃惗 Tao as a dog name
(19873) Chentao
Tao Chen (b. 1980) of Suzhou, Jiangsu, is a well-known amateur astronomer who codiscovered comet C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao) and who helped organize the fourth International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy in Shanghai in July 2009. The name was suggested by D. W. E. Green.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(231346) Taofanlin
Tao Fan-Lin, director of the Taipei amateur astronomers association, has worked at Taipei Observatory and Taipei Astronomical Museum for four decades.Discovered 10 March 2006 by Lin, H.-C., Ye, Q.-z., Lulin