Asteroids named after people called Sima
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(12620) Simaqian
Sima Qian (c.145 B.C.–c. 85 B.C.) was a Chinese historian, counselor and court astrologer of the Han emperor Wu Di. He wrote a treatise on the Chinese calendar. His Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian) contains the earliest systematical description of the Chinese constellations.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar