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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 108. Chapters: Kazuro Watanabe, Takeshi Urata, Henri Debehogne, Henry E. Holt, Hiroshi Kaneda, Seiji Ueda, Edwin Hubble, Freimut Borngen, Otto Struve, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Nikolai Chernykh, Edward L. G. Bowell, Paul G. Comba, Robert H. McNaught, Clyde Tombaugh, Max Wolf, John Broughton, James Whitney Young, Lenka Kotkova, Andrew Lowe, Percival Lowell, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Lyudmila Chernykh, Antonin Mrkos, Andrea Boattini, Allan Sandage, Jane Luu, Michael E. Brown, Frank B. Zoltowski, Lyudmila Zhuravlyova, Charles T. Kowal, Lutz D. Schmadel, Hermann Goldschmidt, Tsutomu Seki, Giuseppe Piazzi, Yrjo Vaisala, Duncan Steel, Marc W. Buie, Milo Tichy, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Robert Weber (astronomer), Krisztian Sarneczky, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Robert Burnham, Jr., George Van Biesbroeck, Johann Palisa, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Giovanni Schiaparelli, David H. Levy, Brian G. Marsden, James Edward Keeler, Lyudmila Karachkina, Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova, Wolf Bickel, Walter Baade, Edouard Stephan, Tom Gehrels, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Zde ka Vavrova, David J. Tholen, Masanori Hirasawa, Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, Eleanor F. Helin, Erwin Schwab, Auguste Charlois, Shohei Suzuki, Lubo Kohoutek, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, John Russell Hind, Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer), List of miscellaneous minor planet discoverers, Catalina Sky Survey, Viktor Knorre, Carlos Torres (astronomer), Toshimasa Furuta, Eugene Joseph Delporte, Jana Ticha, Zden k Moravec, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Cyril V. Jackson. Excerpt: Kazuro Watanabe Watanabe Kazur, born May 1, 1955) is an amateur Japanese astronomer. He was born in Hokkaid, Japan and is a member of the Astronomical Society of Japan and Oriental Astronomical Association. Through publications and the direction of junior associates, this asteroid hunter has been responsible for the discovery of over 500 asteroids. He is the author or the co-author of the Japanese publications Asteroid Hunter ( ), Celestial Body Photography Manual ( ), The Celestial Sky of Our Dreams ( ), as well as others. He also is a frequent contributor to the Japanese periodical Monthly Astronomical Guide ( ). The minor planet 4155 Watanabe has been named in his honor. See Meanings of asteroid names for the complete list. Takeshi Urata Urata Takeshi, 1947 December 15, 2012) was a Japanese astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory. In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet in over fifty years. He named it after it his daughter, Mizuho. His pioneering feat led to an upsurge in such discoveries. In the ten years that followed, amateurs from Japan discovered 160 minor planets. Urata has contributed to academic journals such as Advances in Space Research. Urata co-discovered the periodic comet 112P/Urata-Niijima in 1986. One of the most active amateur astronomers in Japan, he was also an editor of the Japanese Ephemerides of Minor Planets. The 1927-discovered asteroid 3722 Urata is named after him. Henri Debehogne (30 December 1928 9 December 2007) was a Belgian astronomer. He was born at Maillen. Debehogne worked at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique (Royal Observatory of Belgium) in Uccle, and specialized in astrometry of comets and asteroids. He discovered over 700 asteroids, including the Trojan asteroids (6090) 1989 DJ and 65210 Stichius (the latter with Eric Walter Elst). The asteroid 2359 Debehogne was named in his honor. He died in Uccle.
