Asteroids named after people called Keinosuke
(14902) Miyairi
Keinosuke Miyairi (1865–1946), of Kyushu Imperial University, a pioneer in epidemiology, discovered that the snail now called “Miyairi-gai” is an intermediate host for transmission of Shistosoma japonicum infection. This enabled schistosomiasis to be controlled. The name was suggested by S. Murayama and O. Muramatsu.Discovered 17 January 1993 by Kushida, Y., Muramatsu, O., Yatsugatake