Asteroids named after people called Shin
👶 Shin as a baby name
Named in honor of Shin Kasahara (b. 1953), doctor of dentistry and senior lecturer at Tohoku University. An amateur astronomer, he has been enthusiastically engaged in positional observation and orbit calculation of minor planets and comets since 1973. He also played an important role in designing and constructing the biggest portable telescope in Japan, the 84-cm Chiro Memorial Telescope, which went on a national tour to allow the observation of comet 1P/Halley. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by M. Koishikawa and A. Fujii.Discovered 15 October 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
Shin Takeda (b. 1950) is a Japanese amateur astronomer living in Habikino City, Osaka. He performed orbit calculations while observing comets at the Muroo Obervatory. Shin is a member of the Hoshinohiroba observers group and the Japan Astronomical Club.Discovered 29 September 1989 by Mizuno, Y., Furuta, T., Kani
Shin Subin (b. 1992) was awarded second place in the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her earth-science team project. She attends the Damyang High School, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea.Discovered 5 January 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
Shin Dongju (b. 1993) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his environmental sciences team project. He also received the Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award. He attends the Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Busan, South Korea.Discovered 2 February 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
Shin Hirayama (1867–1945) was a Japanese astrophysicist, and became the second director of Tokyo Astronomical Observatory in 1920. Because he found two new asteroids in 1900, later identified as prediscovery observations of (498) and (727), he is regarded as the Japanese pioneer in asteroid astronomy.Discovered 12 March 1977 by Kosai, H., Hurukawa, K., Kiso
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