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Yoshio Kushida (串田 嘉男, Kushida Yoshio, born September 19, 1957 in Hachioji, Tokyo) 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 (M.P.C. 35483).
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 |
| (6915) 1992 HH | April 30, 1992 |
| 7068 Minowa | November 26, 1994 |
| 7421 Kusaka | April 30, 1992 |
| 7575 Kimuraseiji | December 22, 1989 |
| (7765) 1991 AD | January 8, 1991 |
| 7775 Taiko | December 4, 1992 |
| (7821) 1991 AC | January 8, 1991 |
| 7830 Akihikotago | February 24, 1993 |
| (8532) 1992 YW3 | December 29, 1992 |
| 8691 Etsuko | October 21, 1992 |
| (8830) 1988 VZ | November 7, 1988 |
| (8876) 1992 WU3 | November 23, 1992 |
| 9190 Masako | November 4, 1991 |
| (9335) 1991 AA1 | January 10, 1991 |
| 9746 Kazukoichikawa | November 7, 1988 |
| 9844 Otani | November 23, 1989 |
| (10144) 1994 AB2 | January 9, 1994 |
| 10566 Zabadak | January 14, 1994 |
| (11513) 1991 CE1 | February 12, 1991 |
| 11528 Mie | December 3, 1991 |
| (12337) 1992 WV3 | November 24, 1992 |
| 12342 Kudohmichiko | January 30, 1993 |
| (12691) 1988 VF2 | November 7, 1988 |
| (12735) 1991 VV1 | November 4, 1991 |
| 14902 Miyairi | January 17, 1993 |
| (15269) 1990 XF | December 8, 1990 |
| (15764) 1992 UL8 | October 31, 1992 |
| 16599 Shorland | January 20, 1993 |
| (17558) 1994 AA1 | January 4, 1994 |
| 17563 Tsuneyoshi | February 5, 1994 |
| (20042) 1993 CK1 | February 15, 1993 |
| 26829 Sakaihoikuen | November 30, 1989 |
| 27791 Masaru | February 24, 1993 |
| 162011 Konnohmaru | January 4, 1994 |
| 1 with O. Muramatsu 2 with M. Inoue 3 with R. Kushida | |
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