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Masayuki Yanai
is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific co-discoverer of minor planets. One of his co-discoveries is the dark, inner main-belt asteroid 3915 Fukushima. He retired from docent for astronomy at Sapporo Science Center. The asteroid 4260 Yanai, discovered by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro Observatory () in 1989, was named in his honor on 8 July 1990 (). List of discovered minor planets See also *List of minor planets: 17001–18000 *National Astronomical Observatory of Japan References External links * * 1959 births 21st-century Japanese astronomers Discoverers of asteroids Discoveries by Masayuki Yanai, * 20th-century Japanese astronomers Living people {{japan-astronomer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minor Planet
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor planet'', but that year's meeting reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs).Press release, IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes International Astronomical Union, August 24, 2006. Accessed May 5, 2008. Minor planets include asteroids ( |
