Asteroids named after people called Zheng

(12935) Zhengzhemin

Zheng Zhemin (b. 1924), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering and a foreign academician of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, is one of the founders of the field of explosion mechanics. A leader of the field of mechanics in China, he has proposed and created new branches of mechanics.Discovered 2 October 1999 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, Xinglong

(32093) Zhengyan

Zheng Yan (b. 1997) was awarded second place in the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his biomedical and health sciences project. He attends the Brookfield Central High School, Brookfield, Wisconsin, U.S.A.Discovered 28 May 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro