Asteroids named after people called Masahiro
馃懚 Masahiro as a baby name
Named in honor of Masahiro Yamanishi (b. 1960), senior researcher at Saji Observatory. He was director of the Matsuyama planetarium, Ehime Prefecture, from 1987 to 1993 and secretary of the Astronomical Society of Shikoku from 1985 to 1993. He is an active observer of minor planets and supernovae with the 1.03-m telescope in Saji and an enthusiastic popularizer of astronomy. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by Y. Yamada.Discovered 12 September 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
Masahiro Yoshihara (b. 1928), of Yokkaichi, Japan, has been an amateur astronomer since 1942. From 1943 to 1951 he very actively observed variable stars. On 1946 Feb. 9 he was an independent discoverer of the outburst of the recurrent nova T CrB.Discovered 15 November 1995 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Masahiro Shimizu (b. 1956) is the president of the Shimizu Clinic, site of the largest astronomical observatory in a hospital in Japan. He has introduced astronomy to countless people and patients in his neighborhood.Discovered 15 October 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
Masahiro Mita (b. 1948) is a well-known writer. In 1977 he won the Akutagawa Prize, which is one of the most important prizes in Japan for a novelist.Discovered 26 October 1992 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
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