Asteroids named after people called Shinpei
(27879) Shibata
Shinpei Shibata (b. 1954) is a Japanese astrophysicist who works on the theory of particle acceleration and high-energy emission in the pulsar magnetosphere. He also contributes greatly to education and to popularizing astronomy in Yamagata prefecture.Discovered 15 February 1996 by T. Okuni, Nanyo