7816 Hanoi

7816 Hanoi (1987 YA) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on December 18, 1987 by M. Koishikawa at the Ayashi Station of the Sendai Astronomical Observatory. This is named for capital of Vietnam

Discovery

7816 Hanoi was discovered in 1987 Dec. 18 by M. Koishikawa at the Ayashi Station of the Sendai Astronomical Observatory. It was named for Hanoi, the city which Koishikawa 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 at HNUE.

See also

• List of astronomical objects discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa