Tsuneo Niijima

Short description: Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer

Minor planets discovered: 32 [1] see § List of discovered minor planets

Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo; born 1955) is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer.[2]

He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 32 numbered minor planets between 1986 and 1996.[1] He also co-discovered 112P/Urata-Niijima, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family in 1986.[3]

The main-belt asteroid 5507 Niijima, discovered by Takeshi Urata and Kenzo Suzuki, was named in his honor.[2] Naming citation was published on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C. 22510).[4]

## List of discovered minor planets

3565 Ojima | 22 December 1986 | list [A]

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3585 Goshirakawa | 28 January 1987 | list [A]
3686 Antoku | 3 March 1987 | list [A]
4375 Kiyomori | 28 February 1987 | list [A]
4376 Shigemori | 20 March 1987 | list [A]
4377 Koremori | 4 April 1987 | list [A]
4402 Tsunemori | 25 February 1987 | list [A]
4574 Yoshinaka | 20 December 1986 | list [A]
4767 Sutoku | 4 April 1987 | list [A]
4896 Tomoegozen | 20 December 1986 | list [A]
5578 Takakura | 28 January 1987 | list [A]
5830 Simohiro | 9 March 1991 | list [A]
5912 Oyatoshiyuki | 20 December 1989 | list [A]

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6158 Shosanbetsu | 12 November 1991 | list [A]
7139 Tsubokawa | 14 February 1994 | list [A]
7202 Kigoshi | 19 February 1995 | list [A]
(7748) 1987 TA | 12 October 1987 | list [A]
7752 Otauchunokai | 31 October 1988 | list [B]
8344 Babette | 25 January 1987 | list [A]
(8565) 1995 WB6 | 24 November 1995 | list [A]
10162 Issunboushi | 2 January 1995 | list [A]
10727 Akitsushima | 25 February 1987 | list [A]
(13148) 1995 EF | 1 March 1995 | list [A]
(17406) 1987 DO | 25 February 1987 | list [A]
17472 Dinah | 17 March 1991 | list [A]

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(20999) 1987 BF | 28 January 1987 | list [A]
(23476) 1990 VE4 | 15 November 1990 | list [A]
26168 Kanaikiyotaka | 24 November 1995 | list
26170 Kazuhiko | 24 January 1996 | list
(39637) 1995 EG | 1 March 1995 | list [A]
(39664) 1995 WW4 | 20 November 1995 | list [A]
(58147) 1986 WK | 29 November 1986 | list [A]
Co-discovery made with:
A T. Urata
B K. Kanai

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(5507) Niijima". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (5507) Niijima. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 470. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5261. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
3. ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 112P/Urata-Niijima". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1000113. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
4. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 23 July 2016.

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