is a Japanese

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

and discoverer of

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 ...

s from

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

, in the northernmost prefecture of Japan. Kaneda ranks among the world's most prolific individual

discoverers of minor planets This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 numb ...

. He is credited by the

Minor Planet Center The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Function ...

with the co-discovery of 705 numbered minor planets, between 1987 and 2000, all of them in collaboration with astronomer

Seiji Ueda is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Between 1987 and 2000, Ueda (in collaboration with Hiroshi Kaneda) discovered 705 asteroids. He holds an MD and Ph.D. from Stanford University and is on the staff at the Gr ...

. Along with being an astronomer, Kaneda works as a computer programmer and is a developer of astronomical software. The main-belt asteroid 4677 Hiroshi, discovered by Atsushi Takahashi and Kazurō Watanabe at Kitami in 1990, is named after him.

List of discovered minor planets

His many minor planet discoveries include (5646) 1990 TR, a

near-Earth object A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is a NEO if its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU). ...

of the Amor group, , an asteroid from the main-belt,

(5407) 1992 AX , provisional designation ', is a stony asteroid and a synchronous binary Mars-crosser from the innermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 4 January 1992, by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi ...

, a Mars-crossing asteroid, (7352) 1994 CO, a Jupiter trojan, as well as the three named main-belt asteroids

4672 Takuboku 4672 Takuboku, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 17 April 1988, by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the Kushiro O ...

, 5176 Yoichi and

6235 Burney 6235 Burney, provisional designation , is a Florian or background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 14 November 1987, by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at ...

(the latter was not named by him). As of 2016, most of his numbered discoveries remain unnamed ''(see table below)''. All minor planets were co-discovered with

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