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Astro News Briefs
By the Editors of Sky & Telescope

XingMing Zhou (1965–2004)
September 1, 2004 |Well-known Chinese comet hunter XingMing Zhou died last August 5th from severe head trauma that he sustained in a motorcycle accident near Liancheng in Fujian province. He was 39. Zhou is survived by his wife, Xin Yu, and daughter, Yingzhen.

Zhou was one of the world's most successful discoverers of comets recorded by the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite. He found 63 sungrazing and non-sungrazing comets on images obtained with SOHO's coronagraphs as well as one with the SWAN instrument. The latter has been designated as Comet SWAN, C/2004 H6.

For more information about the life of Zhou, visit Tony Hoffman's Web site. http://home.earthlink.net/~tonyhoffman/xingming.htm

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1338_1.asp

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