15 October 2018
An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), coded 189018, was discovered on Oct. 14, 1998 by astronomers with the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong observatory in northern China, according to a recent IAU communique.
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