3867 Shiretoko
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3867 Shiretoko is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on April 16, 1988 by Masayuki Yanai
and Kazuro Watanabe
at Kitami 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...
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 April 16, 1988 by Masayuki Yanai
Masayuki Yanai
is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.-References:...
and Kazuro 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 Observatory
Kitami Observatory
Kitami Observatory is an observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Its observatory code is 400. It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.-Notes:...
.