Yuki and Niall are the children of codiscoverer Henri Boffin who, after postdoctoral studies in Japan and Wales, joined the Royal Observatory at Uccle in 1998. Yuki means snow in Japanese and Niall means chief or champion in Celtic.
Discovered on 10-12-2001 in Uccle by Pauwels, T., Boffin, H. M. J.