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Shun-ei Izumikawa
Shun-ei
Izumikawa
is a
Japanese
astronomer
and co-discoverer of
5239 Reiki
and
27748 Vivianhoette
, two
main-belt asteroids
he first
observed
together with astronomer
Osamu Muramatsu
at the
Yatsugatake South Base Observatory
near
Hokuto, Yamanashi
, in
1990
and
1991
.
The
asteroids
were named for Japanese
amateur astronomer
Reiki Kushida
and
American
Vivian
Hoette from the U.S.
Yerkes Observatory
, respectively.