Named in honor of Kazuo Hayakawa (1919– ), an expert on mineralogy and petrology and professor of engineering at Hokkaigakuen University in Sapporo, Japan. His fields of interest include meteorites, craters and astroblemes. He has written a biography of William S. Clark (1826–1886) and many astrogeological essays. (M 20521) _ _.
Discovered on 17-11-1989 in Kitami by Endate, K., Watanabe, K.