Asteroids named after people called Toru
馃懚 Toru as a baby name
Toru Yusa (b. 1966) is director of the planetarium and observatory at the Osaki Lifelong Learning Center in Miyagi Prefecture and a member of the board of directors of the Japan Public Observatory Society. In addition to being a popularizer of astronomy, he is an enthusiastic observer of comets.Discovered 9 January 1997 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Toru Yada (b. 1971) is a planetary scientist at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at JAXA. He is one of the principal scientists at JAXA's planetary material samples curation facility, where samples from (25143) Itokawa are studied and preserved.Discovered 20 November 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
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