Tamagawa (population 5800), located in the eastern part of Ehime prefecture, is home of Tamagawa Junior High School. The naming marks the participation of the school’s students in “NEARlink”, an educational project to simulate the launch and voyage of the NEAR spacecraft and analyze the actual data from it. (M 40710) _ _.
Discovered on 10-4-1997 in Kuma Kogen by Nakamura, A.