Asteroids named after people called Masanori
馃懚 Masanori as a baby name
Masanori Inohara (b. 1921) has been an amateur astronomer since childhood. He contributed greatly to the popularization of astronomy, especially in schools after World War II, when Japan was very poor. He is also an enthusiastic chaser of solar eclipses.Discovered 20 October 1995 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Masanori Joya (1940-1967) was an early member of the Japan Lunar and Planetary Observers Network and played a vital role in its early development. He was the first discoverer in Japan of Jupiter's SEB Disturbance in 1962. He died tragically after losing his way in an unexpectedly heavy snowfall on Mt. Asama.Discovered 30 January 1996 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Masanori Hirai (b. 1943) is a professor at Fukuoka University of Education, specializing in stellar spectroscopic studies of cool stars and, especially, carbon stars. He has demonstrated the existence of polyatomic molecules, HCN and C2H2, in the cool atmospheres of bright carbon stars.Discovered 15 October 1990 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
Masanori Abe (b. 1958) became a member of the Nanyo Astronomical Lovers Club in 1987 and actively popularizes astronomy.Discovered 9 October 1996 by T. Okuni, Nanyo
Masanori Terasako (b. 1951) is a renowned amateur astronomer in Japan. Terasako started his visual comet searching in 1971, and after sweeping for 1374 hours he discovered C/1987 B2. He is also famous for his telescopic meteor observations.Discovered 12 October 1997 by A. Nakamura, Kuma Kogen
Masanori Mizutani (b. 1957) is a Japanese amateur astronomer. He uses a 0.4-m Ritchey-Chr茅tien telescope to conduct follow-up observations of supernovae, photometric observations of eclipsing variable stars, and observations of stellar occultations by asteroids. Masanori is also a science teacher, and is particularly passionate about astronomy education.Discovered 2 October 1994 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
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