Photo taken by Yuji Ohshima, Nagano, Japan
July 1.528, 2014 UT
| 24981 Shigekimurakami | Discovered 1998 May 22 by A. Nakamura at Kuma Kogen. |
| Shigeki Murakami (b. 1962), born in Shiga Prefecture, is a senior researcher at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute and amateur astronomer in Japan. Using a homemade 0.46-m Dobsonian telescope, he codiscovered C/2002 E2. | |