Asteroids named after people called Ryuji
馃懚 Ryuji as a baby name
Ryuji Kitagawa (1949-2009) was a professor at Hiroshima University. From his research of clay mineralogy, he clarified the mechanism of weathering of granite and generation of landslide and slope failure. In addition to his own research, he mentored many other scientists.Discovered 16 November 1995 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Ryuji Okazaki (b. 1971) is a Japanese noble gas cosmochemist who contributed to instrument development, curation, and analysis for JAXA鈥檚 Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 missions. He led the development of the air-tight Hayabusa2 sample container, which preserved solar-wind helium from asteroid Ryugu, and led studies of volatiles in the returned samples.Discovered 7 October 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
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