Asteroids named after people called Hirohide
(23879) Demura
Japanese lunar and planetary scientist Hirohide Demura (b. 1970) works on Japanese deep-space missions, among them Nozomi (Planet-B) to Mars, Hayabusa (MUSES-C) to asteroid Itokawa, and Kaguya (SELENE) to the Moon.Discovered 17 September 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa