Yoshii

(1992 SF1 )
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NOW @ 8 CAP 1
FOUND @ 9 ARI 39
 
Inclination: 3.948
Eccentricity: 0.155
Period: 3.247 years
AU 2.193
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

23.9.1992 15:00 Kitami 143e47 43n46 observations 1


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Named in honor of Koichi Yoshii (b. 1914), retired postmaster and amateur astronomer. He was a pioneer in meteor photography in Japan. In the 1930s, when the sensitivity of photographic emulsion was still very low, he succeeded in photographing 86 meteors with his homemade camera. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by A. Fujii, Y. Yabu and T. Sato.


Discovered on 23-9-1992 in Kitami by Endate, K., Watanabe, K.

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