Asteroid 48575, Hawaii, was discovered on July 4, 1994 by Japanese astronomer Akimasa Nakamura at Kuma Kogen Observatory in Kumakogen, Ehime, Japan. It has a period of 5 years, 132 days.
It was named for the US state of Hawaii, which became a sister state of Japan's Ehime prefecture after an accident on February 9, 2001 in which a U.S. Navy submarine, the USS Greeneville, struck and sank the Ehime Maru, a training boat from a fisheries magnet high school in Ehime, off Hawaii, killing nine people aboard the boat, including four high-school students.
Astrologically, asteroid Hawaii seems to have to do with the state of Hawaii, its inhabitants, and its indigenous people; multiculturalism, racial diversity.