Sentence Correction (SC) | QOTD: In its journal, the U.S.-based Minor Planet Center

A modifier should be AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to what it modifies.

OA: In its journal, the U.S.-based Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced that it would officially name minor planet number 207715, which was discovered by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) on September 11, 2007, “Muqin Shuijao”, which means “water cellar for mothers” in English, in the international minor planet table.

Here, the prepositional phrase in red seems intended to modify the much earlier verb in
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