Asteroids named after people called Takafumi
馃懚 Takafumi as a baby name
Takafumi Matsui (b. 1946) is Director of the Planetary Exploration Research Center at the Chiba Institute of Technology, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in astrobiology and comparative planetology, and the study of meteoroid impacts on the evolution of the Earth and life.Discovered 2 January 1993 by Natori, A., Urata, T., Yakiimo
Takafumi Ohnishi (b. 1971) is a systems engineer at Fujitsu Limited, specializing in analysis and software development for orbit determination in deep space. He contributed to orbit determination under low thrust for MUSES-C, the Japanese spacecraft designed to explore (25143) 1998 SF36.Discovered 27 November 1995 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi
Takafumi Ootsubo (b. 1970) is an associate professor at Tohoku University. He has studied interplanetary and cometary dust particles using mid-infrared spectroscopy, and has made a spectroscopic survey of cometary CO2 using AKARI satellite observations.Discovered 22 May 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
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