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Discovered 1997 June 9 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, Xinglong.
Chinese science historian and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Xi Zezong (b. 1927) made many contributions to the history of science, especially to the history of astronomy. His New Catalogue of Ancient Novae (1955) has received wide attention in the contemporary astrophysical community.
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