Asteroids named after people called Matsuo
馃懚 Matsuo as a baby name
Named in honor of Matsuo Sugano (b. 1939), the first discoverer of comet C/1983 J1. He also discovered three novae (V827 Her, V838 Her and V4327 Sgr) and the peculiar variable V1143 Ori. He worked at Akashi Municipal Planetarium for 36 years to encourage the development of amateur astronomy.Discovered 30 September 1989 by Nomura, T., Kawanishi, K., Minami-Oda
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), a master of the Haikai poetry of the early Edo period, was born in Ueno in Iga Province (the present Iga City in Mie prefecture). He established a distinct Haikai style called Shofu based on the essence of the Japanese aesthetic Wabi-Sabi.Discovered 22 October 1993 by T. Seki, Geisei
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