Makio Akiyama

Makio Akiyama (秋山 万喜夫, Akiyama Makio, born 1950) is a Japanese astronomer affiliated with the Susono Observatory (886).

[1] In 1992 he discovered the asteroid 6251 Setsuko in collaboration with astronomer Toshimasa Furuta, and named it after his wife Setsuko Akiyama (b.

[2] The main-belt asteroid 4904 Makio, discovered by Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta at Kani Observatory (403) in 1989, is named after him.

[3] Naming citation was published on 5 March 1996 (M.P.C.

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