Asteroids named after people called Masateru
(10401) Masakoba
Masateru Kobayashi (b. 1953) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and the chairperson of the Astronomical Society of Yamaguchi prefecture. He has served as a guide at numerous stargazing meetings, and has planned and conducted many total solar eclipse tours.Discovered 6 November 1997 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi