=START= XMT: 10:41 Mon Feb 25 EXP: 11:00 Mon Mar 04
NEW MINOR PLANET DISCOVERED BY ZINJINSHAN OBSERVATORY IN
CHINA NAMED "SHANTOU"
GUANGZHOU (FEB. 25) XINHUA - A minor planet discovered by
the Zijinshan Observatory on November 11, 1980, has been
named 'SHANTOU' and became the 3,139th minor planet in the
Astronomical Almanic.
The minor planet, estimated to be 32 km in diameter, takes
5.7 years to complete an orbit around the Sun.
'SHANTOU' is the name of one of China's first four special
economic zones. A coastal city in South China's Guangdong
Province, the Shantou Special Economic Zone has become one
of the country's most economically developed areas.
=END=
|
|
Disclaimer: The file contained in the
box above or displayed in a separate window from a link in the
box above is NOT owned nor implied to
be owned by BeYoND THe iLLuSioN. Most files at BeYoND THe
iLLuSioN are originally from public Bulletin Board Systems
(BBS) which were popular in the days before the Internet or
from gopher, web, and FTP sites from the early days of the
Internet which no longer exist today. Essentially, all files
were acquired from the public domain in one for or another.
However, there have been occasions when copyright protected
material has appeared on BeYoND THe iLLuSIoN without permission
of the copyright holder. In these instances, we have and will
continue to remove the copyright protected file as soon as it
is brought to our attention. This can now be done using our Report Copyright Material form. Fill
out the form, and the webmaster will be notified of the
situation.
There are also times when files found on BeYoND THe iLLuSioN
have a real home somewhere else on the Internet. In these
instances, we will gladly replace the file with a link to its
true home whenever it is brought to our attention. If you know
of the true home of any of these files, you can use our Report Original URL form to bring it yo our
attention.
|
