Asteroids named after people called Hisayoshi
(20771) Yurimoto
Hisayoshi Yurimoto (b. 1962) is a Japanese cosmochemist who has made innovative developments in isotope microscopes. His oxygen isotope analysis showed that Itokawa particles are ordinary chondrite-like, and his strong leadership ensured the successful curation and chemical and isotopic analysis of samples from Ryugu from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.Discovered 25 August 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro