The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid 316021 named after her on 10th April 2015. Amy Mainzer, astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, named Asteroid 316201 after Malala. Mr. Mainzer discovered the asteroid is in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter which gives her the right to name it.

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• About Asteriod 316201
  •  Asteriod orbits around the Sun every 5.5 years.
  •  it is about 4 kilometers in diameter.
  •  Its surface is very dark, the color of printer toner.
  • Asteroid is in the Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
• About Malala Yousafzai:
  • Malala  is a Pakistani activist for female education.
  • Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997.
  • She was shot by Taliban gunmen in 2012.
  • In early 2009, when she was 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley.
  • A 2013 issue of Time magazine featured Yousafzai as one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World”.
  • She was the winner of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize, and the recipient of the 2013 Sakharov Prize.
  • She won Noble Prize laurate in 2014 and became the youngest Recipient of noble Prize Laurate.