Asteroid named Iitatemura
FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Hiroaki Ono (L), head of the Hoshinomura astronomical observatory in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, hands to Norio Kanno, mayor of the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, a certificate made by Ono stating that an asteroid has been recognized as having the name "Iitatemura" (the village of Iitate) by the International Astronomical Union, at a village government office on July 19, 2012. Ono named the asteroid after the village, which came under evacuation orders due to the nuclear crisis.
- Product Code
- ILEA001171763
- Registered date
- 2012/7/19 00:00:00
- Credit
- Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- 2012 Kyodo News
- Media size
- 2415 × 1881 pixel
- Deployment size
- 462.63(KB)*
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