Shin Hirayama

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Shin Hirayama (平山信) (1868–1945) was the first Japanese astronomer to discover an asteroid. In 1900 he discovered 498 Tokio and 727 Nipponia.

Hirayama crater on the Moon is jointly named after him and Kiyotsugu Hirayama.

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