Makio Akiyama
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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese astronomer affiliated with the Susono Observatory (886). He is a discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 16 numbered minor planets during 1989–1999.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
In 1992 he discovered the asteroid 6251 Setsuko in collaboration with astronomer Toshimasa Furuta, and named it after his wife Setsuko Akiyama (b. 1953) in May 1996 (Template:Small).<ref name="springer-Setsuko" />
The main-belt asteroid 4904 Makio, discovered by Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta at Kani Observatory (403) in 1989, is named after him.<ref name="Schamdel" /> Naming citation was published on 5 March 1996 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />