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BIYO, named after filipina Dr. Josette Talamera-Biyo by the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, USA. She resides and teaches in Iloilo, Philippines.

Biyo is a minor planet between Mars and Jupiter.

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Astronauts don't discover planets - they travel into space. Planets are discovered from ground-based telescopes, or from automated spacecraft (that is, without astronauts) such as Kepler.

Also, sorry to step on your national pride, but no Filipino has ever discovered a (Solar) planet. Most of them have been known since ancient times (they're kind of hard to miss, actually); the two faint ones, Uranus and Neptune, were discovered by an Englishman and a German looking where a Frenchman said to look, respectively.

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No Filipino has discovered a planet, so far.

Dr. Josette T. Biyo discovered the asteroid, 13241 Biyo, which is probably the answer you were looking for,

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