Asteroids named after people called Sachiko

(16624) Hoshizawa

Sachiko Hoshizawa (b. 1951) appears daily on a Japanese television program about cooking and has introduced more than 3800 dishes using the produce of Hokkaido. A great space enthusiast, she developed and in 2000 presented to the astronaut Kouichi Wakata a special soybean soup for space.Discovered 16 April 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami

(22952) Hommasachi

Sachiko Homma (b. 1965), of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is the secretary of Makoto Yoshikawa, project scientist for the Hayabusa mission.Discovered 5 October 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa