Yu Chunshun (1951–1996; ) was a Chinese explorer. He died of dehydration in 1996 while searching for a lost oasis in the
Lop Nur
Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a former salt lake, now largely dried up, located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts ...
desert in
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
province,
People's Republic of China
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. His body was discovered only two kilometers away from his next buried cache of food and water.
Asteroid
83600 Yuchunshun, discovered by
Bill Yeung
William Kwong Yu Yeung (born 1960; also known simply as Bill Yeung; ) is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian amateur astronomer with telescopes based in the United States.
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and also discovered the comet 172P/Yeung ...
in 2001 was named in his memory.
The official was published by the
Minor Planet Center
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Function
...
on 18 June 2008 ().
References
External links
Death notice in ''Asia Week'' magazine
Chinese explorers
1951 births
1996 deaths
People from Shanghai
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