Space has added another Chinese star! The National Space Administration held a naming ceremony for ＂Wu Weiren Xing＂

　　CCTV News:Yesterday (8th), the National Space Administration held the naming ceremony of "Wu Weiren Xing" to praise Wu Weiren’s contributions in the field of lunar and deep space exploration, which also shows that the international community recognizes and affirms China’s achievements in lunar exploration and China’s aerospace development.　

　　Wu Weiren is the chief designer of China’s lunar exploration project. The asteroid number 281880 named "Wu Weiren Xing" was discovered by the Near-Earth Object Telescope of the Zijinshan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in August 2007 and received the international permanent number in June 2011.

　　It is estimated that the "Wu Weiren Star" orbits the sun in about 5.75 Earth years. The closest distance between the planet and the earth is about 270 million kilometers, and the farthest is about 690 million kilometers.