(21064) Yangliwei

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21064 Yangliwei is one of the main asteroid belt, which by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809 ) of the European Southern Observatory was discovered on June 6, 1991.

The asteroid was named in March 2005 after the Chinese taikonauts Yang Liwei (* 1965), who with his spaceship Shenzhou 5 was launched for China's first manned space flight on 15 October 2003.

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