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Shōhei Suzuki
is a Japanese astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. In collaboration with Japanese astronomer Masanori Hirasawa, Suzuki discovered 52 numbered minor planets at Mount Nyukasa Station between 1991 and 1998. Both men are graduates of Waseda University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. The university has numerou ..., which they named an asteroid after in 1991.9350 Waseda Retrieved 2009-04-14. List of discovered minor planets References < ...
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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 ( |
