Claim: 5176 Yoichi is a comet discovered by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda in Kushiro Observatory on 24 January 1979.
Evidence: 5176 Yoichi, provisional designation 1989 AU, is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers (11 miles) in diameter. 
It was discovered on 4 January 1989, by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the Kushiro Observatory on Hokkaido, Japan. 
4 January 1989 5176 Yoichi