Name Seiji Ueda Role Astronomer | Education Stanford University | |
Discovered (13987) 1992 WK9, 6007 Billevans Similar People Jane Jacobs, Blaise Pascal, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Hipparchus | ||
Seiji Ueda (上田 清二, Ueda Seiji, born 1952) is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Between 1987 and 2000, Ueda (in collaboration with Hiroshi Kaneda) discovered 705 asteroids.
He holds an MD and Ph.D. from Stanford University and is on the staff at the Graduate University for Advanced Study in Japan. The inner main-belt asteroid 4676 Uedaseiji, discovered in 1990, is named for him.
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