Yoshiaki Oshima

+ Minor planets discovered: 61

JSGA held an astronomical education program as part of their International Asteroid Monitoring Project, that collaborated with the British Council and its International Schools' Observatory (ISO) program which had involved 12 teams of junior high to senior high school classes from Asian and European countries.

The Private Investigator of Stars was co-sponsored by the British Council which advised the International Asteroid Monitoring Project by coordinating observatory in the Canary islands and participating laboratories for ISO. Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper held an asteroid hunting contest for the JSGA and run articles on their pages. 438 school classes and other teams signed up with 1,317 indibivisuals, and 133 teams reported the results of their observation.

JSGA based its project headquarters in its observatory called Bisei Spaceguard Center, owned by the Japan Space Forum. An optical telescope on the Canary island has been operated by the staff of Astrophysics Research Institute at John Moores University in Liverpool, and images were transmitted to each classroom via internet connection. (The participating teams were supplied with a computer program "Aarteroid Catcher B-612" that JSGA developed to compare images of asteroids in the night sky.) Each team will receive images from the Canary Island telescope and compare them with JSGAs' images, and the mission was monitoring asteroid collision and perhaps unknown asteroids. The contest was due 4 March 2001, and Japan Spaceguard Association (JSGA) examined 133 reports for 10 days. On 14 March, the jury meeting was held, and winners were announced on Yomiuri Shimbun on 20 March. Award overview, assessment comments as well as presentation report, interviews to recipients, along with JSGA's prospects for future astronomic education and asteroid hunting projects. 19 February 1988 11 November 1988 11 November 1988 10065 Greglisk 3 December 1988 13 November 1988 29 October 1989 9 October 1988 12 November 1988 7 December 1988 9 October 1988 9 March 1989 13934 Kannami 11 December 1988 14843 Tanna 12 November 1988 27 November 1989 9 October 1989 7 March 1988 11 November 1988 3 December 1988 21 November 1989 5 February 1989 20 November 1989 15 October 1988 2 November 1988 7 December 1988 25 November 1989 20 November 1989 5 February 1989 20 November 1989 15 October 1988 10 February 1989 21 November 1989 25 October 1989 23 October 1989 25 October 1989 25 October 1989 29 October 1989

Works Isobe, S., Atsuo, A., Asher, D., Fuse, T., Hashimoto, N., Nakano, S., K. Nishiyama, Yoshiaki Oshima, Noritsugu Takahashi, J. Terazono, H. Umehara, Takeshi Urata, Makoto Yoshikawa. "Educational program of Japan Spaceguard Association using asteroid search", Spaceguard Detective Agency, Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors – ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July – 2 August 2002