Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize-winning teenage activist, now has an asteroid named in her honor. The more-than-2-mile-wide asteroid-officially now known as “316201 Malala”-orbits the sun every five-and-a-half years in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Amy Mainzer, the NASA astronomer who discovered the rock, was the one who named it after Yousafzai.
Malala Yousafzai gets her own asteroid
