4971 Hoshinohiroba
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4971 Hoshinohiroba is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on January 30, 1989 by Fujii
and Watanabe
at Kitami.
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 January 30, 1989 by Fujii
Fujii
is a Japanese name. It may refer to:* Eiichi Fujii, Japanese ichthyologist* Fumiya Fujii, a musician* Hideki Fujii , Japanese photographer* Sadakazu Fujii , a Japanese poet and scholar of Japanese literature...
and Watanabe
Kazuro Watanabe
is an amateur Japanese astronomer. He was born in Hokkaidō, Japan and is a member of the Astronomical Society of Japan and Oriental Astronomical Association....
at Kitami.