Tetsuya Fujii

Asteroids discovered: 22
4645 Tentaikojo 16 September 1990
4676 Uedaseiji 16 September 1990
4714 Toyohiro 29 September 1989
4718 Araki 13 November 1990
4743 Kikuchi 16 February 1988
4750 Mukai 15 December 1990
4971 Hoshinohiroba 30 January 1989
4975 Dohmoto 16 September 1990
5180 Ohno 6 April 1989
5192 Yabuki 4 February 1991
5357 Sekiguchi 2 March 1992
5474 Gingasen 3 December 1988
6246 Komurotoru 13 November 1990
6381 Toyama 21 February 1988
7418 Akasegawa 11 March 1991
9602 Oya 31 October 1991
9871 Jeon 28 February 1992
16439 Yamehoshinokawa 30 January 1989
16449 Kigoyama 29 September 1989
(21015) 1988 UF 16 October 1988
(29159) 1989 GB 2 April 1989
(37565) 1988 VL3 3 November 1988

Tetsuya Fujii (藤井哲也, Fujii Tetsuya; born 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.

From 1988 to 1992, he had discovered a total of 22 asteroids together with his colleague, Kazuo Watanabe, at the Kitami Observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan,[1] where several amateur astronomers have been conducting an active program of astrometric observations of minor planets and comets.[2] He is director of the astronomical club in Kitami, where he also works for the NHK broadcasting office.[3]

The minor planet 4343 Tetsuya, discovered by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda in 1988, was named in his honour.[3]

See also

References

  1. "Minor Planet Discoverers". Minor Planet Center. 28 December 2015. Retrieved December 2015.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (3785) Kitami. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 320. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved December 2015.
  3. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (4343) Tetsuya. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 373. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved December 2015.
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