is a Japanese
astronomer and discoverer of
minor planets.
Between 1986 and 1991, he has discovered or co-discovered 16 of
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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s at the
Nihondaira Observatory in
Shimizu, Japan.
He is credited as sole discoverer of , a 3-kilometer
near-Earth object belonging to the group of
Amor asteroids.
His co-discoverers were the Japanese astronomers
Takeshi Urata
was a Japanese astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory.
In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet (2090 Mizuho) in over fifty years, which he named after his daughter, Mizu ...
,
Watari Kakei and
Hitoshi Shiozawa ''(see adjunct table)''.
References
Discoverers of asteroids
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20th-century Japanese astronomers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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