Asteroids named after people called Zhou
馃懚 Zhou as a baby name
Zhou Youyuan (b. 1938) is a leading astrophysicist and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has made significant contributions to the study of quasars, active galactic nuclei, cosmology, large scale structures of the universe, and high-energy astrophysics.Discovered 26 September 1997 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, Xinglong
Lu Xun (or Lu Hs眉n) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881-1936), one of the major Chinese writers of the twentieth century. Considered the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua (the vernacular), as well as classical Chinese. His work is known to English readers through numerous translations.Discovered 9 May 2007 by Ye, Q.-z., Shih, C.-Y., Lulin
Zhou Wenjie (b. 1997) is a Chinese amateur astronomer and member of the Xingming Observatory Sky Survey team. He has hundreds of (co-)discoveries, including comet P/2024 FG9, NEOs, supernovae, a tidal disruption event, and microlensing events. Wenjie writes popular astronomy articles and he co-authored an article on SN 2023ixf published in Nature (2024).Discovered 31 August 2017 by X. Gao X. Liao, Xingming
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