Laurent made the discovery from the private observatory of Benjamin Valz in Nîmes, France.
It was chosen by Benjamin Valz, director of the Marseilles Observatory, in honour of the astronomical station of that name operated by Baron Franz Xaver von Zach on the mountains above the city.
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