Ozeki

Ozeki is asteroid #10760 and also known as 1990 TJ3. Ozeki measures 4.1 km in diameter. Ozeki’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.21 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.13, a period of revolution of 1’195 days, and an inclination of 4.7 degrees. Ozeki was discovered by the Japanese amateur astronomers Endate Kin (円館 金) and Watanabe Kazurō (渡辺 和郎) at the Kitami Observatory.

Ozeki is named after Takaaki Ozeki, who was born in 1952, was a science teacher and later astronomy curator at the, in 1992 opened, Hoshinoko-Yakata (星の子館) Observatory. A search engine’s AI assistant suggests that he in 2014 founded a mobile planetarium, which he since then is in charge of, and that his correct name, while Takaaki Ozeki is a transcription used by several Japanese persons of this name, should be Ōzeki Takaaki (大関 敬明). Although Ōzeki (大関) is a really existing Japanese family-name, Ōzeki (大関) is much better known as being the second-highest rank in sumō (相撲). Ōzeki (大関) in this context sometimes gets translated as big obstacle. An Ōzeki (大関) is expected to win his matches and if he doesn’t almost always succeed, then he will get demoted. So an Ōzeki (大関) is for other wrestlers, who want to get promoted to a higher rank, a big obstacle. Japanese concepts often consider what they could mean for other people. So the asteroid Ozeki represents other people’s obstacles. Ozeki as one of several obstacle-indicating celestial objects belongs to Saturn’s helpers.

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