Asteroids named after people called Seiji
馃懚 Seiji as a baby name
Named in honor of Seiji Kimura (b. 1932), an amateur astronomer who first suggested sending a solar eclipse expedition to the U.S.S.R. in 1968. Since then he has organized several overseas expeditions to observe total solar eclipses. Secretary of the committee of the Japan Amateur Astronomers' Convention for over 14 years, Kimura established the Herschel Society of Japan in 1984 and has been editing bimonthly newsletters promoting knowledge of the Herschels and keeping contact with the William Herschel Society in the U.K. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by S. Morikubo.Discovered 22 December 1989 by Kushida, Y., Muramatsu, O., Yatsugatake
Seiji Suzuki (b. 1933), a retired teacher, is secretary of the Yamagata Astronomers Liaison Conference (since 1997) and the Yamagata Astronomers Club.Discovered 7 March 1997 by T. Okuni, Nanyo
Seiji Manabe (b. 1947) was a project manager of the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy, which led to the high-precision determination of trigonometric parallaxes for Galactic radio sources. He served as head of the Earth Rotation Division at the National Observatory of Japan and as director of Mizusawa Observatory.Discovered 23 March 1992 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
Seiji Sugita (b. 1967) is a Japanese planetary scientist who led remote-sensing studies of asteroid Ryugu with optical cameras on JAXA鈥檚 Hayabusa2 spacecraft. His expertise in impact experiments enabled key contributions to NASA鈥檚 Deep Impact mission through observations of the impact event. Seiji also contributes to ESA鈥檚 Hera mission.Discovered 5 December 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Seiji Mochizuki (b. 1942) was born in Tokyo and worked for an optical company from 1967 to 1979. The 0.6-m reflector at Geisei observatory was designed by him. Even now it is still used for astronomical observation.Discovered 8 February 1992 by T. Seki, Geisei
Seiji Kazama (b. 1962) is a Japanese amateur astronomer. He is the representative of the Internet TV station KitaSubaru, which opened in 2012 at the Nayoro Observatory in Hokkaido. The station broadcasts astronomy topics once a week.Discovered 15 October 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
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