4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze founder of Taoism. Because the astronomer C.Y. Shao a long-time participant in the minor planet program at Harvard came from that town. His son was also named for it.
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