8485 Satoru
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8485 Satoru is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 29, 1989 by T. Seki at Geisei. The asteroid is named after, Minoru Honda
's wife.
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 March 29, 1989 by T. Seki at Geisei. The asteroid is named after, Minoru Honda
Minoru Honda
was a Japanese amateur astronomer.He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková.He was the first to report the very bright V1500 Cygni at magnitude 3.0 on August 29, 1975; it peaked at 2.0, and many hundreds of independent discoveries...
's wife.