{"id":257810,"date":"2025-12-30T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257810\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:51:08","slug":"asteroid-named-after-chinese-botanist-kuang-tingyun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257810\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid named after Chinese botanist Kuang Tingyun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; An asteroid has been officially named after Kuang Tingyun, a distinguished Chinese botanist renowned for her long-standing research on photosynthesis, the Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A naming ceremony was held on Monday to officially bestow the honor, following approval from the International Astronomical Union, according to the institute.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid, coded 29509, was discovered in 1997 by the Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program of the National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the ceremony, IBCAS director Wang Xiaoquan said the asteroid naming represents a lasting tribute to Kuang&#8221;s outstanding scientific accomplishments and a high recognition of IBCAS&#8217;s contributions to science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Kuang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made systematic and pioneering contributions to the study of photosynthetic membrane protein structure and function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING &#8212; An asteroid has been officially named after Kuang Tingyun, a distinguished Chinese botanist renowned for her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[133390,133391,381,18,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-257810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-asteroid-naming","9":"tag-botanist","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115807904277909709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}