08 May 2017
Inner main-belt asteroid No. 456677 was named after Chinese aerospace scientist and the Chief Commander and Chief Designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme, Ye Peijian at a ceremony on 08 May. Ye is active in the country's lunar probe and deep space missions, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The minor planet was discovered by a Chinese team at the Purple Mountain Observatory in east China's Nanjing on 11 September 2007.
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