Yoshio Kushida (串田 嘉男, Kushida Yoshio, born September 19, 1957 in Hachioji, Tokyo) is a Japanese seismologist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
[2] Kushida is the founder of the Yatsugatake South Base Observatory.
[2] 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.
The main-belt asteroid 5605 Kushida, discovered by Satoru Otomo at Kiyosato in 1993, was named in his honor.
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