(43803) Wakakinosakura = 1991 RH2
Discovery: 1991-09-07 / T. Seki / Geisei / 372
Wakakinosakura is a kind of wild cherry tree discovered in 1889 by Japanese botanist Tomitaro
Makino at Ogawa Castle in his hometown of Sakawa, Kochi prefecture. In 2008 seeds of the tree
were carried to the Japanese module Kibo on the ISS and the cherry trees grown from the returned
seeds are affectionately called Uchu-Zakura (“space cherry blossoms”)
WGSBN Bulletin 3, #7
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