10006 Sessai
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10006 Sessai is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 22, 1976 by H. Kosai and K. Hurukawa at the Kiso Station of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. It is named after Nishiyama Sessai, an 18th-century Confucian scholar during Japan's Edo period
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Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on October 22, 1976 by H. Kosai and K. Hurukawa at the Kiso Station of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. It is named after Nishiyama Sessai, an 18th-century Confucian scholar during Japan's Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
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