Asteroids named after people called Kazuko

(13815) Furuya

Kazuko Furuya (b. 1954) has devoted herself to kindergarten education since 1975. At present she is making efforts to give great dreams and hope to children with a creative teaching method, in the position of vice principal at Hadano Municipal Honcho kindergarten in Kanagawa prefecture.Discovered 22 December 1998 by A. Asami, Hadano

(22951) Okabekazuko

Kazuko Okabe (b. 1972), of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is the secretary of Junichiro Kawaguchi, project manager for the Hayabusa mission.Discovered 4 October 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa

(35143) Harimoto

Kazuko Harimoto (b. 1962) is a professor of public-health nursing at Nayoro City University in Hokkaido, Japan. She also serves as chair of the steering committee of the Nayoro Observatory and contributes to the popularization of astronomy among the citizens of Nayoro.Discovered 19 October 1992 by Yanai, M., Watanabe, K., Kitami

(43870) Andokazuko

Kazuko Ando (b. 1984) is a part-time Japanese lecturer at Okayama University of Science. She focuses on the formation process of circumstellar structures in symbiotic stars and is conducting long-term spectroscopic monitoring of systems that continuously eject jets, primarily analyzing the velocity structure of hydrogen emission lines.Discovered 2 October 1994 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami