Xi Zezong
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Xi Zezong (June 6, 1927, Yuanqu, Shanxi – December 27, 2008, Beijing) was a Chinese astronomer, historian, and translator.[1][2] He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an awardee of the Astronomy Prize.
He identified a possible reference to one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter in the fragmentary ancient works of the 4th-century BC Chinese astronomer Gan De, who may have made observation of either Ganymede or Callisto in summer 365 BC.[3][4]
Honors
Asteroid 85472 Xizezong, discovered by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1997, was named in his honor.[5] The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on April 2, 2007 (M.P.C. 59388Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[6]
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External links
- 85472 Xizezong, JPL Small-Body Database Browser
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- 1927 births
- 2008 deaths
- 20th-century Chinese translators
- 21st-century Chinese translators
- 20th-century Chinese astronomers
- Historians from Shanxi
- Historians of astronomy
- Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- People from Yuncheng
- 21st-century Chinese historians
- 21st-century Chinese science writers
- Scientists from Shanxi