Zhu Jin

Zhu Jin (朱瑾) (867-918) was a warlord late in the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty who would later be a major general of the Wu (also known as Hongnong) state during the subsequent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. In the late Tang years, Zhu Jin, as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Taining Circuit (泰寧, headquartered in modern Jining, Shandong) would form a power bloc with his cousin Zhu Xuan the military governor of Tianping Circuit (天平, headquartered in modern Tai'an, Shandong), but they were both eventually defeated by Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan). Zhu Xuan was killed, and Zhu Jin fled to the domain of Yang Xingmi the military governor of Huainan Circuit (淮南, headquartered in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu); he would thereafter serve under Yang and Yang's successors, whose domain formed the Wu state eventually. In 918, angry at the arrogance of the Wu junior regent Xu Zhixùn (the son of the regent Xu Wen), he assassinated Xu Zhixùn, but Xu Wen's troops attacked him; he committed suicide when he saw that there was no escape.

Zhu Jin (astronomer)

Zhu Jin (simplified Chinese: 朱进; traditional Chinese: 朱進; pinyin: Zhū Jìn; born April 24, 1965), is a Chinese astronomer. He is the current curator of Beijing Planetarium.

Early life

Zhu Jin was born on April 24, 1965 in Beijing, China, with his ancestral home in Lantian County, Shaanxi. He enrolled in the Department of Astronomy of Beijing Normal University and graduated in July, 1985. After that he continued studying astronomy in Nanjing University and got his Ph.D. in July, 1991. He worked as assistant researcher, associate professor and researcher in succession in Beijing Astronomical Observatory (now part of National Astronomical Observatory) of Chinese Academy of Sciences from July 1991 to September 2002, and especially as a postdoctoral researcher between May 1992 and April 1994. He moved to Beijing Planetarium in September 2002, since when working as curator.

Academic achievements

Zhu Jin's major achievements in astronomy lies in the research of asteroids. He has been the host of the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program since 1994, and by 2001, he had discovered 2728 asteroids which were given provisional designation, 1214 of them being eventually numbered and named permanently. In addition, his team discovered a comet on 3 June 1997, which was later named Zhu-Balam. He is also a member of Small Bodies Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union.