Yoshio Kushida
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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese seismologist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.<ref name="springer" />
Kushida is the founder of the Yatsugatake South Base Observatory.<ref name="springer" /> He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 56 numbered minor planets during 1988–1994, most of them in collaboration with astronomer Osamu Muramatsu, as well as with Masaru Inoue and with his wife Reiki Kushida.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> He also discovered and co-discoverer the two periodic comets 144P/Kushida and 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu, respectively.
The main-belt asteroid 5605 Kushida, discovered by Satoru Otomo at Kiyosato in 1993, was named in his honor.<ref name="springer" /> Naming citation was published on 28 July 1999 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />
List of discovered minor planetsEdit
| 4458 OizumiTemplate:Ref label | January 21, 1990 |
| 4577 ChikakoTemplate:Ref label | November 30, 1988 |
| 4640 HaraTemplate:Ref label | April 1, 1989 |
| 4875 IngallsTemplate:Ref label | February 19, 1991 |
| 5352 FujitaTemplate:Ref label | December 27, 1989 |
| 5403 TakachihoTemplate:Ref label | February 20, 1990 |
| 5405 NeverlandTemplate:Ref label | April 11, 1991 |
| 5473 YamanashiTemplate:Ref label | November 5, 1988 |
| 5489 OberkochenTemplate:Ref label | January 17, 1993 |
| 5687 YamamotoshinobuTemplate:Ref label | January 13, 1991 |
| 6308 EbisuzakiTemplate:Ref label | January 17, 1990 |
| 6395 HilliardTemplate:Ref label | October 21, 1990 |
| 6405 KomiyamaTemplate:Ref label | April 30, 1992 |
| 6464 KaburakiTemplate:Ref label | February 1, 1994 |
| 6612 HachiojiTemplate:Ref label | March 10, 1994 |
| 6643 MorikuboTemplate:Ref label | November 7, 1990 |
| 6667 SannaimuraTemplate:Ref label | March 14, 1994 |
| 6731 HieiTemplate:Ref label | January 24, 1992 |
| 6865 DunkerleyTemplate:Ref label | October 2, 1991 |
| 6868 SeiyauyedaTemplate:Ref label | April 22, 1992 |
| (6915) 1992 HHTemplate:Ref label | April 30, 1992 |
| 7068 MinowaTemplate:Ref label | November 26, 1994 |
| 7421 KusakaTemplate:Ref label | April 30, 1992 |
| 7575 KimuraseijiTemplate:Ref label | December 22, 1989 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | January 8, 1991 |
| 7775 TaikoTemplate:Ref label | December 4, 1992 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | January 8, 1991 |
| 7830 AkihikotagoTemplate:Ref label | February 24, 1993 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | December 29, 1992 |
| 8691 EtsukoTemplate:Ref label | October 21, 1992 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | November 7, 1988 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | November 23, 1992 |
| 9190 MasakoTemplate:Ref label | November 4, 1991 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | January 10, 1991 |
| 9746 KazukoichikawaTemplate:Ref label | November 7, 1988 |
| 9844 OtaniTemplate:Ref label | November 23, 1989 |
| 10144 BernardbigotTemplate:Ref label | January 9, 1994 |
| 10566 ZabadakTemplate:Ref label | January 14, 1994 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | February 12, 1991 |
| 11528 MieTemplate:Ref label | December 3, 1991 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | November 24, 1992 |
| 12342 KudohmichikoTemplate:Ref label | January 30, 1993 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | November 7, 1988 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | November 4, 1991 |
| 14902 MiyairiTemplate:Ref label | January 17, 1993 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | December 8, 1990 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | October 31, 1992 |
| 16599 ShorlandTemplate:Ref label | January 20, 1993 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | January 4, 1994 |
| 17563 TsuneyoshiTemplate:Ref label | February 5, 1994 |
| Template:MpTemplate:Ref label | February 15, 1993 |
| 26829 SakaihoikuenTemplate:Ref label | November 30, 1989 |
| 27791 MasaruTemplate:Ref label | February 24, 1993 |
| 162011 KonnohmaruTemplate:Ref label | January 4, 1994 |
| Template:Note label with O. Muramatsu Template:Note label with M. Inoue Template:Note label with R. Kushida | |
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