Day: 6. November 2021

2-11 Asteroid named after Chinese biochemist who made major contribution to insulin chemical synthesis

In a ceremony at Beijing’s CAS Institute of Biophysics, asteroid 325812 was named Asteroid Zouchenglu, as approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2020 Asteroid 325812 was discovered in 2008 by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in east China. Asteroids are the only celestial bodies that can be named by their discoverers. The […]

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