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139 Juewa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | 139 Juewa is a very large and dark (Click link for more info and facts about Main belt) Main belt (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid. |
| | It was discovered by the visiting American (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomer (Click link for more info and facts about James Craig Watson) James Craig Watson on October 10, 1874; Watson was in China to observe the (Click link for more info and facts about transit of Venus) transit of Venus. |
| | Watson asked his hosts to name the asteroid, and they called it 瑞華, which in modern (Click link for more info and facts about pinyin) pinyin would be transliterated as ruìhuá, but was written Juewa according to the spelling conventions of the time. |
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