Asteroids named after people called Toshiko
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Toshiko Mayeda (b. 1923), senior research associate at the University of Chicago Enrico Fermi Institute, has produced a comprehensive body of data on oxygen isotopes in meteorites. These data have provided an essential tool for the classification of meteorites, and for relating meteorites to their parent bodies.Discovered 1 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
Toshiko Nagao (1939–2021), an amateur astronomer, strived to promote astronomy in Japan with her own observatory on the roof on her house. She supported the second discoverer in his asteroid observations.Discovered 29 October 1991 by Takahashi, A., Watanabe, K., Kitami
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