9964 Hideyonoguchi
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9964 Hideyonoguchi is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...

 once every 3.88 years.

Discovered on February 13, 1992 by T. Seki, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Hideyonoguchi" after Hideyo Noguchi
Hideyo Noguchi
, also known as , was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease in 1911.-Early life:...

, a bacteriologist who made important advances in medicine working at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
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