Yoshio Kushida
Yoshio Kushida is a Japanese seismologist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
Kushida is the founder of the Yatsugatake South Base Observatory. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 56 numbered minor planets during 1988–1994, most of them in collaboration with astronomer Osamu Muramatsu, as well as with Masaru Inoue and with his wife Reiki Kushida. He also discovered and co-discoverer the two periodic comets 144P/Kushida and 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu, respectively.
The main-belt asteroid 5605 Kushida, discovered by Satoru Otomo at Kiyosato in 1993, was named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 28 July 1999.List of discovered minor planets
| 4458 Oizumi | January 21, 1990 |
| 4577 Chikako | November 30, 1988 |
| 4640 Hara | April 1, 1989 |
| 4875 Ingalls | February 19, 1991 |
| 5352 Fujita | December 27, 1989 |
| 5403 Takachiho | February 20, 1990 |
| 5405 Neverland | April 11, 1991 |
| 5473 Yamanashi | November 5, 1988 |
| 5489 Oberkochen | January 17, 1993 |
| 5687 Yamamotoshinobu | January 13, 1991 |
| 6308 Ebisuzaki | January 17, 1990 |
| 6395 Hilliard | October 21, 1990 |
| 6405 Komiyama | April 30, 1992 |
| 6464 Kaburaki | February 1, 1994 |
| 6612 Hachioji | March 10, 1994 |
| 6643 Morikubo | November 7, 1990 |
| 6667 Sannaimura | March 14, 1994 |
| 6731 Hiei | January 24, 1992 |
| 6865 Dunkerley | October 2, 1991 |
| 6868 Seiyauyeda | April 22, 1992 |
