Name Yoshisada Shimizu | Role Astronomer | |
Discovered (37824) 1998 BU14, (29343) 1995 CK10 Similar Alfred Hitchcock, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, George Takei | ||
Yoshisada Shimizu (清水 義定, Shimizu Yoshisada, born 1943) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as a astrophotographer.
The central main-belt asteroid 7300 Yoshisada, discovered by astronomer Takeshi Urata in 1992, was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published on 18 August 1997 (M.P.C. 30478).
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