7291 Hyakutake
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7291 Hyakutake is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on December 13, 1991 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato
. It is named after Yuji Hyakutake
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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 December 13, 1991 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato
Kiyosato, Yamanashi
is a locality in the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan. It is a popular resort area.It is serviced by Kiyosato Station on the Koumi Line.-External links:...
. It is named after Yuji Hyakutake
Yuji Hyakutake
was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake on January 30, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars.His only other discovery was comet C/1995 Y1. The media has stated that Hyakutake became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki .He died in 2002, at age 51, of an...
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