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Published Reference List: [Warner, B.D. (2002) Minor Planet Bull. 29, 27-28.] [Warner, B.D. (2011) Minor Planet Bull. 38, 63-65.]
7816 Hanoi
Discovered 1987 Dec. 18 by M. Koishikawa at the Ayashi Station of the Sendai Astronomical Observatory.
Named for the capital of Vietnam. The discoverer visited the city in 1997 with Yoshihide Kozai to help Vietnamese astronomers install a 0.40-m Schmidt Cassegrain telescope with a CCD camera and a 0.10-m refractor. The equipment, installed at the National Pedagogical University, was obtained using funds from the Sumitomo Foundations, Japan, with the hope that astronomical research in Vietnam will thereby be promoted.
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