Asteroids named after people called Jin
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(8315) Bajin
Named in honor of Jin Ba (b. 1904), president of the Chinese Writer's Association. He is one of the most influential Chinese writers since the May 4 New Culture Movement, an eminent master of Chinese literature in the twentieth century and an outstanding translator, editor and publisher. His works are widely disseminated around the world.Discovered 25 November 1997 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, Xinglong
(20408) Jinbeniyama
Jin Beniyama (b. 1996) is a Japanese astronomer who has contributed to observations and characterization studies of near-Earth asteroids, improving our understanding of their properties.Discovered 17 August 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(24926) Jinpan
Jin Pan (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, California.Discovered 2 April 1997 by LINEAR, Socorro
(33489) Myungjinkim
Myung-Jin Kim (b. 1978) is a senior research scientist at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. His research includes the photometric characterization of asteroids, involvement in the Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid (162173) Ryugu, and contributions to the large-scale KMTNet and OWL-Net surveys.Discovered 10 April 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(100434) Jinyilian
Jin Yilian (b. 1929), an academician of the China Academy of Engineering, has raised a number of ideas for technology proposals. He performed as general chief designer of the ‘Shenwei’ series of giant computer systems, with computing speed up to more than 10 trillion instructions per second.Discovered 6 June 1996 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, Xinglong
(546049) Zhujin
Jin Zhu (b. 1965) is the chief editor of the Amateur Astronomer magazine in China and the head of the Popularization Working Committee of the Chinese Astronomical Society. He was in charge of the Beijing Schmidt CCD asteroid program during 1995-2002 and was the director of the Beijing Planetarium during 2002-2019.Discovered 23 December 2011 by Sun, G., Gao, X., Xingming
(546844) Jinzhangwei
Jin Zhangwei (b.1968), a member of the Xingming Observatory Sky Survey team, is a Chinese astronomy amateur in Ningbo, Zhejiang. He has discovered several new objects, including asteroids, supernovae and SOHO comets.Discovered 11 September 2016 by Ruan, J., Gao, X., Xingming