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Asteroid Wang Xuan Star
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Asteroid number 4913  has been renamed   Wang Xuan Star by the International Asteroid Centre. The name had been put forward by  the China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing University.
The asteroid was discovered by the  Zijinshan Observatory run by  the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
 Professor Wang Xuan (1937-2006), was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and  innovator of the Chinese printing industry.


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