Tsukuyomi

(1997 YO4 )
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NOW @ 9 CAN 21

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21.12.1997 00:00 Nachi-Katsuura 135e55 33n37 observations 1


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According to myth, Tsukuyomi-no-mikoto, the Japanese god of night and the moon, was born from the right eye of the god Izanaki {see planet  (10209)}. It is said that he made his older sister, the goddess Amaterasu {see planet  (10385)}, very angry and caused the separate appearance of the sun in the day and the moon at night. (M 39655) _ _.


Discovered on 21-12-1997 in Nachi-Katsuura by Shimizu, Y., Urata, T.

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