120730 Zhouyouyuan | Discovered 1997 Sept. 26 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. |
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. |
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Reference: MPC batch dated 2018-09-25 | Last Updated: 2018-10-01 |
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