Tsuneo Niijima

Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo^?) is a Japanese astronomer.

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.^[1]

He co-discovered the periodic comet 112P/Urata-Niijima.

Asteroid 5507 Niijima is named after him.

References

1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers". IAU Minor Planet Center. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html. Retrieved 1 January 2011. 

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