Discovery and Naming
It was discovered August 24, 1903, by Max Wolf, at Heidelberg, where it was given the provisional designation 1903 LY, and later numbered as minor planet 513. It was eventually named Centesima, which, in Latin, means "hundredth", to represent Wolfs' 100th asteroid discovery.
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