Name Takuo Kojima | Role Astronomer | |
Discovered 4576 Yanotoyohiko, 3999 Aristarchus, 3998 Tezuka | ||
Takuo Kojima (小島 卓雄, Kojima Takuo, born 1955) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 45 asteroids he made between 1987 and 2000. Takuo Kojima also writes a regular column for the astronomy magazine Gekkan Temmon titled the "Comet Observers Guide. The main-belt asteroid 3644 Kojitaku is named after him.
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