Asteroids named after people called Hidehiko

(7366) Agata

Hidehiko Agata (b. 1961) is a staff member in the public information office of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. His main interests are education and popularization of astronomy, and he has published many books on elementary astronomy. He has also studied cometary plasma tails.Discovered 20 October 1996 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi

(39723) Akazawa

Hidehiko Akazawa (b. 1953) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who owns a private observatory in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. He has been conducting photometric and spectroscopic observations of variable stars for many years. Hidehiko has also contributed to spectroscopic confirmation observations of nova candidates.Discovered 7 November 1996 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami