Asteroids named after people called Shigeki
馃懚 Shigeki as a baby name
Named in memory of Shigeki Okabayashi (1913-1944), a self-taught Japanese astronomer. The first in Japan to discover more than one kind of new celestial object, he discovered Nova V630 Sgr in 1936 and comet C/1940 S1 (Okabayashi-Honda), and also independently discovered C/1939 H1 and C/1939 V1. He was employed by Kurashiki Observatory from 1939 to 1941. Tragically, he was killed on his way home from a geological survey in Sumatra when his hospital ship was torpedoed. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by T. Sato and A. Fujii.Discovered 15 March 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
Shigeki Murakami (b. 1962), born in Shiga Prefecture, is a senior researcher at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute and amateur astronomer in Japan. Using a homemade 0.46-m Dobsonian telescope, he codiscovered C/2002 E2.Discovered 22 May 1998 by A. Nakamura, Kuma Kogen
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