(5513) Yukio

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( 5513 ) Yukio is one of the main asteroid belt, which by Japanese astronomers Watari Kakei, Minoru Kizawa and Takeshi Urata at the Oohira station of Nihondaira Observatory (IAU code 385) was discovered in Shizuoka Prefecture on November 27, 1988.

The asteroid was named after the Japanese amateur astronomer and designer of telescopes Yukio Hasegawa ( b. 1950 ) named, with its self-built telescopes several asteroids and periodic comet 112P/Urata-Niijima were discovered.

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