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Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so. Published Reference List: [Waszczak, A.; Chang, C.-K.; Ofeck, E.O.; Laher, F.; et al. (2015) Astron. J. 150, A75.]
Discovered 1978 Dec. 1 at the Harvard College Observatory, Agassiz Station.
Named in memory of Kaoru Akiyama (1901-1970), professor at Hosei Univer sity, Tokyo, during 1930-1940 and 1949-1970, well known for his work on minor planets. Initially in collaboration with K. Hirayama, he made the first de tailed study of the orbit of the 3/2 commensurability object (153) Hilda. Name proposed by K. Tomita.
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