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Special Love for Special You (VI)
Updated: Sep 14, 2023
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Only two things remain eternally immutable:
The Sun, the Moon and the stars in the sky
And dreams of space exploration in people’s minds
The rising moon over East Lake, Wuhan
An asteroid was discovered by mankind
on October 9, 1964.
Then
it was named the “Hubei Asteroid”
and given asteroid number 2547.
More and more stories connecting Hubei and space
have appeared since then.
Asteroid 41981
was named “Yaobeina”
after a late Chinese female singer.
Asteroid 34714
was named “Zhanghao”
after the professor at China University (Wuhan) who discovered it.
Asteroid 2021 GB68
was named after a boy,
a Grade 3 student of a senior school in Wuhan,
and is now known as Xiong Jiarui.
Photo from Wuhan Broadcasting and Television Station
In additional to looking up at the starry sky,
Hubei people long to “reach a star or the Moon”
and astral travel.
Nothing can be more romantic than this.
The Kuaizhou rockets made in Hubei
are frequently launched
Nie Haisheng, an astronaut from Hubei,
has gone into space three times.
China’s planet exploration mission
was named “Tianwen”,
which was taken from Chu State Poet Qu Yuan’s long poem Tianwen.
Zhurong Mars Rover Photo from China National Space Administration
Then,
love letters of Hubei people
carrying the hopes of mankind
are sent to remote stars.
Special love
is especially for you.
As the Yangtze River
constantly flows,
love letters of Hubei people
will be constantly written.
Hubei is not far
and I look forward to our meeting.
