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{{Short description|Japanese astronomer}}
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|+ [[Minor planet]]s discovered: 1<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
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| [[4875 Ingalls]] || 19 February 1991 || {{MPC|4875}}{{ref label|codisc|1|}}
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* {{note label|codisc|1|}} co-discovery with [[Yoshio Kushida|Y. Kushida]]
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{{Nihongo|'''Reiki Kushida'''|串田 麗樹|Kushida Reiki}} is a Japanese amateur [[astronomer]], discoverer of [[supernova]]e such as [[1991bg]] (the first visual discovery made by a female astronomer), and co-discoverer of [[4875&nbsp;Ingalls]], a Flora asteroid from the main-belt.<ref name="springer-Ingalls" /><ref name="springer-Reiki" />

Reiki Kushida is married to astronomer [[Yoshio Kushida]] co-discoverer of 4875&nbsp;Ingalls and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and [[comet]]s himself. The asteroid [[5239 Reiki]], discovered by astronomer [[Shun-ei Izumikawa]], was named in her honor on 6 February 1993 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 21610}}).<ref name="springer-Reiki" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

==References==
{{reflist
|refs=

<ref name="MPC-Discoverers">{{cite web
  |title      = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
  |date       = 23 May 2016
  |accessdate = 20 June 2016}}</ref>

<ref name="springer-Ingalls">{{cite book
  |title      = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (4875) Ingalls
  |last       = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
  |publisher  = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  |page       = 421
  |date       = 2007
  |isbn       = 978-3-540-00238-3
  |doi       = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4769 |chapter       = (4875) Ingalls }}</ref>

<ref name="springer-Reiki">{{cite book
  |title      = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (5239) Reiki
  |last       = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
  |publisher  = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  |page       = 450
  |date       = 2007
  |isbn       = 978-3-540-00238-3
  |doi       = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5070 |chapter       = (5239) Reiki }}</ref>

<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web
  |title      = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
  |accessdate = 20 June 2016}}</ref>

}} <!-- end of reflist -->

== External links ==
* http://www.nayoro-star.jp/photo/tenmondai-houmon/kushida.html {{in lang|ja}}

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