Hōei Nojiri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hōei Nojiri

Japanese astronomer

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1885

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1977

Profession: astronomer, translator, contributing editor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Hoei Nojiri (?? ??, Nojiri Hoei, November 15, 1885 – October 30, 1977) was a Japanese essayist and astronomer.
He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhiko?, whose pen name was Osaragi Jiro. In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiosei (???, "Star of the King (God) of the Underworld") for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto.
The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.