Asteroids named after people called Shogo

👶 Shogo as a baby name

(20717) Shogotachibana

Shogo Tachibana (b. 1973) is a Japanese cosmochemist conducting laboratory experiments on chemical reactions in space. He contributed to JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission through setting up the science goals, developing the sampling system, and leading the analysis of samples returned from asteroid Ryugu. Shogo is also a co-investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.Discovered 7 December 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro

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