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Hiroshi Kaneda

1953 - Today

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Hiroshi Kaneda (金田 宏, Kaneda Hiroshi; born 1953) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets from Sapporo, in the northernmost prefecture of Japan. Kaneda ranks among the world's most prolific individual discoverers of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the co-discovery of 705 numbered minor planets, between 1987 and 2000, all of them in collaboration with astronomer Seiji Ueda. Along with being an astronomer, Kaneda works as a computer programmer and is a developer of astronomical software. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroshi Kaneda is the 518th most popular astronomer (down from 469th in 2019), the 1,439th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,338th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 518 out of 644. Before him are William Christie, Warren De la Rue, Alfred Bohrmann, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, William Rutter Dawes, and Okuro Oikawa. After him are Agnes Mary Clerke, Charles Augustus Young, John Broughton, Barnaba Oriani, Yuji Hyakutake, and Royal Harwood Frost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 360. Before him are Carla Bodendorf, Denzil Douglas, Michael J. Anderson, John Musker, Raúl Ramírez, and Matija Ljubek. After him are Ali Muhammad Mujawar, Dany Laferrière, Tony Carey, Nada, Jorvan Vieira, and Hamilton Mourão.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 1,439 out of 6,245. Before him are Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Atsushi Sakurai (1966), Jiro Sato (1908), Daichi Fukushima (1977), and Ryo Kawasaki (1947). After him are Homare Sawa (1978), Joji (1992), Shuji Tsurumi (1938), Nujabes (1974), Eiichi Uemura (1975), and Kitamura Tokoku (1868).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 10. Before him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Minoru Honda (1913), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), and Okuro Oikawa (1896). After him are Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Seiji Ueda (1952), Tomimaru Okuni (1931), and Takao Kobayashi (1961).

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