Kiichirō Furukawa
Kiichirō Furukawa (古川 麒一郎, Furukawa Kiichirō; also Hurukawa Kiitiro)?) is a Japanese astronomer at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory,[1] and has also been associated with Nagoya University Deparrtment of Astrophysics.[2]
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids,[3] having reported 49 of them, all of them together with Hiroki Kosai:
The asteroid 3425 Hurukawa is named after him.[1]
References
- ^ a b Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names (5th ed.). Springer. p. 286. ISBN 3540002383, ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA286.
- ^ http://ads.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/search_persons.sh?cases=ignore&words=substring&fuzzy=exact&name=Furukawa,+K
- ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (Alphabetically)". cfa.harvard.edu. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPDiscsAlpha.html. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
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