[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is October 14th?

The day Rikuzentakata (asteroid) was discovered (Iwate Prefecture)

Asteroid Rikuzentakata.USA was discovered on October 14, 1998 , at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona,

It was named on May 9, 2012, in honor of Rikuzentakata City in Iwate Prefecture , which suffered extensive damage following the Great East Japan Earthquake

The following 11 asteroids were also named and announced at the same time for similar reasons to Nakadori

• Aizu
• Aomori
• Iwate
• Miyagi
• Ibaraki
• Tochigi
• Chiba Prefecture
• Hamadori
• Nakadori
• Sakae Village
• Tsunan Town

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