The naming ceremony of the “principal” took place in Shanghai on 6 May. The Cosmodrome has since grown by a “principal”. The asterisk was asteroid found on 3 March 2008 by the near-Earth object telescope of the Mirwon Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Virtue Observatory. In February 2013, the International Asteroid Centre granted its permanent number 355704. Its average distance to the Sun is 452 million kilometres, requiring 5.33 years a week to bypass the Sun; it is 668 ...