| 175718 Wuzhengyi | Discovered 1997 Feb. 2 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. |
| Wu Zhengyi (b. 1916), botanist-academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made pioneering achievements in plant taxonomy, floristics and the study on Chinese plant resources. He was awarded the International COSMOS Prize in 1999 and China's State Supreme Science and Technology Prize in 2007. |
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| Reference: 20111210/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2011-12-12 |
