Asteroids named after people called Xing

(456695) Xingdingyu

Xing Dingyu (b. 1945), is a Chinese physicist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has made contributions to the theories of giant magnetoresistance, hot-electron transport in semiconductors, and high temperature superconductivity.Discovered 18 August 2007 by PMO NEO Survey Program, XuYi