New Delhi:

The youngest Nobel prize winner and girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her.



According to a report in Dawn online, NASA's astronomer Amy Mainzer named Asteroid 316201 after Malala.



"It is a great honour to be able to name an asteroid after Malala. My postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carrie Nugent brought to my attention the fact that although many asteroids have been named, very few have been named to honor the contributions of women (and particularly women of color)," Dawn quoted her saying this.



Mainzer discovered the asteroid in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter which gives her the right to name it. It orbits the Sun every 5.5 years.

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