Asteroids named after people called Ichiro
馃懚 Ichiro as a baby name馃惗 Ichiro as a dog name
(6873) Tasaka
Named in honor of Ichiro Tasaka (b. 1929), Japanese farmer, Mars observer and astronomical optician. He has made hundreds of precision telescope mirrors currently being used both by observatories and amateur astronomers. He operates a tourist house that has an observatory. Its main telescope is a 0.73-m equatorial reflector, both the optical and mechanical parts of which were made by Tasaka himself. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by T. Sato and A. Fujii.Discovered 21 April 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
(8500) Hori
Named in honor of Gen-Ichiro Hori (b. 1930), professor emeritus at Tokyo University who gave lectures on celestial mechanics at Tokyo University, Yale University and the University of Texas at Austin. He developed the famous perturbation theory based on Lie transformations that has been adopted by many scientists to solve a set of differential equations by perturbation methods. In fact, his publication on this in 1966 is the most frequently cited paper during the 50-year history of the Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan. Name proposed by the discoverers, following a suggestion by S. Murayama, K. Hurukawa and A. Fujii, and endorsed by Y. Kozai, K. Aksnes and B. G. Marsden.Discovered 10 October 1990 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
(13582) Tominari
Ichiro Tominari (b. 1955), a prefectural government official, is also well known as an amateur astronomer in Oita. He began studying cosmic rays during his days as a university student and later became interested in galactic astronomy. He is now a planning director of the Astronomical Society of Oita.Discovered 15 October 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami