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Although scientifically just an ordinary MBA (main belt asteroid), the noteworthiness of this particular minor planet is due to its public and media appearance. Long explanation follows.
(718492) is one of the very first minor planets discovered by a citizen science project titled 'COIAS' (backronym "Come On! Impacting ASteroids"). The project uses archival images of one of the most capable optical telescopes made operational to date, the Subaru Telescope with its 8.2 m aperture and HyperSuprimeCam (HSC) hardware capable of taking wide-field images. This large aperture allows the telescope to find asteroids as dim as 27 apparent magnitude, and the area covered by the HSC images are wide and different dates of observations commonly overlap on large areas. Besides the capable telescope and large amounts of previously unprocessed data, COIAS has become popular among younger generations of scientists due to the heavy inspiration drawn from the popular fiction work 'Asteroid in Love' ('Koisuru Asteroid' in the original language Japanese, shortened as 'Koias', from which the project derives its title). In fact, it would barely be an exaggeration to say that the project has become what it is due to the influence of Asteroid in Love. As such, the amateur co-discoverers have dedicated the naming of one of the earliest discoveries of the project to the work's author. The first few discoveries of COIAS have made popular stories in Japan in science news, blogs and journals.
I will therefore argue that this is not 'just a database entry', as that would make this article creation effort likely to target any of the 500,000+ numbered asteroids to have a Wikipedia page rather than (718492) specifically. This is also one reason why this one asteroid among many 500,000+ numbered asteroids has a Wikipedia page in multiple languages. Had it been one of the many ordinary MBAs discovered by long-running asteroid surveys, that would have been just a database entry. Astroguler (talk) 16:17, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Do you have any links to such science news or journal articles? They would probably establish notability, but none are present in the article. Fram (talk) 08:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sure. You are right, I have not referenced to any popular media but just IAU and COIAS sources. I will share some below.
I have not referenced to any such websites in the article as they do not add information about the asteroid or the discovery circumstances (with exceptions to the behind-the-scenes part of the project, but that's perhaps better suited to a page dedicated to the project itself).
AstroArts had also held an online celebration for the very first discovery, only slightly predating the approval of the naming of 718492 Quro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSkwXtFPy0
More sources may pop-up later as this particular asteroid's naming is rather recent news and publications (especially printed ones) can take time to prepare. Astroguler (talk) 16:33, 29 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
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