(4743) Kikuchi

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( 4743 ) Kikuchi is an asteroid of the main belt, which by Japanese amateur astronomers Tetsuya Fujii and Kazuo Watanabe at Kitami Observatory (IAU code 400) was discovered in the prefecture of Hokkaido on February 16, 1988.

The asteroid was named after the Japanese astronaut Ryoko Kikuchi ( b. 1964 ) named, which was intended as a replacement wife for the first Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama.

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