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Named in honor of Satoshi Otomo, a dentist living in Kiyosato {see planet  (5488)}. Discoverer of numerous minor planets since 1991, he is also an active confirmer of new objects in collaboration with S. Nakano {see planet  (3431)}, who proposed the name and made the identifications involving this object. (M 22500)