Kōichirō Tomita, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese astronomer
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Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
About Kōichirō Tomita
- Koichiro Tomita (?? ???, Tomita Koichiro, February 16, 1925 – May 22, 2006) was a Japanese astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and comets.He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 9 numbered minor planets during 1978–1982, such as 2252 CERGA, 3056 INAG, 3765 Texereau, 4051 Hatanaka. He is the author of at least one astronomy book (in Japanese) about comets (which was translated and published in Russian in 1982). The Nysa asteroid 2391 Tomita is named after him.
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