Name Minoru Kizawa | Role Astronomer | |
Discovered (6178) 1986 DA, 4094 Aoshima, (5292) 1991 AJ1, 4948 Hideonishimura People also search for Watari Kakei, Hitoshi Shiozawa, Takeshi Urata | ||
Minoru Kizawa (鬼沢 稔, Kizawa Minoru, born 1947) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
Between 1986 and 1991, he has discovered or co-discovered 16 of asteroids at the Nihondaira Observatory in Shimizu, Japan. He is credited as sole discoverer of (6178) 1986 DA, a 3-kilometer near-Earth object belonging to the group of Amor asteroids. His co-discoverers were the Japanese astronomers Takeshi Urata, Watari Kakei and Hitoshi Shiozawa (see adjunct table).
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