10802 Masamifuruya
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10802 Masamifuruya is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 28, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami. It is named for Masami Furuya, a research fellow at the Kawabe Observatory.
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...
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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 28, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami. It is named for Masami Furuya, a research fellow at the Kawabe Observatory.