Asteroids named after people called Masafumi
馃懚 Masafumi as a baby name
Masafumi Matsumura (b. 1959), associate professor at Kagawa University, studies interstellar matter on the basis of optical polarimetry and on light scattering calculations. He also works for astronomy education.Discovered 2 January 1997 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Masafumi Ashida (b. 1957), a teacher at an elementary school in Kyoto, is widely known by schoolchildren as an astronomical teacher in everyday life. His interests include comet observations, and he has labored continuously as the chief editor of the Kansai Astronomical Society's monthly magazine since 1974.Discovered 26 January 1996 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
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