(16624) Hoshizawa Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 April 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Sachiko Hoshizawa (b. 1951) appears daily on a Japanese television program about cooking and has introduced more than 3800 dishes using the produce of Hokkaido. A great space enthusiast, she developed and in 2000 presented to the astronaut Kouichi Wakata a special soybean soup for space.Naming citation (20070601/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hoshizawa is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hoshizawa is 2.40 au from the Sun and 3.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16624 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 HX |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 2.76 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.26 |
| Orbital period | 3.74 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.41 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.30 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0433 |
| Inclination | 3.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.29 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Sachiko
All asteroids named after someone called Sachiko
Also discovered on 16 April 1993
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- (9067) Katsuno
- (9375) Omodaka
- (9971) Ishihara
- (10555) Tagaharue
- (13576) Gotoyoshi
- (13577) Ukawa
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