4493 Naitomitsu
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4393 Naitomitsu is a Main Belt
minor planet
. It was discovered by Takuo Kojima
at the YGCO Chiyoda Station
in Japan
on October 14, 1988. It was named after Mitsu Naito, the mother of Chiaki Mukai
, the first Japanese astronaut.
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...
minor planet
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
. It was discovered by Takuo Kojima
Takuo Kojima
is an amateur Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and discoverer of the periodic comet 70P/Kojima.3644 Kojitaku is named after him....
at the YGCO Chiyoda Station
YGCO Chiyoda Station
The YGCO Chiyoda Station is an astronomical observatory based in Japan. It has Observatory code number 897. One of its main tasks is to keep track of and survey near-Earth asteroids....
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
on October 14, 1988. It was named after Mitsu Naito, the mother of Chiaki Mukai
Chiaki Mukai
is a Japanese doctor, and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight...
, the first Japanese astronaut.