22745 Rikuzentakata | Discovered 1998 Oct. 14 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station. |
A city in Iwate, Japan, Rikuzentakata was heavily damaged by the 2011 tsunami. Its nationally designated place of scenic beauty, Takata-matsubara, was so affected that there remained only one of 70000 palm trees. |
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