Name Okuro Oikawa Role Astronomer | Died 1970 | |
Discovered 1185 Nikko, 1584 Fuji, 1139 Atami, 1088 Mitaka, 1090 Sumida, 1098 Hakone, 1266 Tone, 1089 Tama | ||
Okuro Oikawa (及川 奥郎, Oikawa Okurō, 1896–1980) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered 8 asteroids between 1927 and 1929.
The outer main-belt asteroid 2667 Oikawa was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 1 June 1996 (M.P.C. 27329).
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