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Minoru Honda

1913 - 1990

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Minoru Honda (本田 実, Honda Minoru; February 26, 1913 – August 26, 1990) was a Japanese astronomer. Starting in 1937, Honda worked for Issei Yamamoto at the Zodiacal Light Observatory in Hiroshima. He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková. He discovered on FH Serpentis (Nova Serpentis 1970) on February 13, 1970 from Kurashiki, Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Minoru Honda is the 473rd most popular astronomer (up from 519th in 2019), the 1,302nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,503rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Minoru Honda ranks 473 out of 644. Before him are Audouin Dollfus, William Wilson Morgan, Hugo Gyldén, Hiroki Kosai, Carolyn Porco, and Elia Millosevich. After him are Pierre Puiseux, Edward Pigott, Lyudmila Karachkina, Dilhan Eryurt, David L. Rabinowitz, and Richard Schorr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Minoru Honda ranks 262. Before him are Giorgio Bocchino, Eugene Lazowski, Patrick Steptoe, Kalpana Datta, Ad Reinhardt, and Cornelius Johnson. After him are Bernard Lovell, Malcom McLean, Bahi Ladgham, Annette Rogers, Taos Amrouche, and Cyril Toumanoff. Among people deceased in 1990, Minoru Honda ranks 213. Before him are Georges de Rham, Eve Arden, Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Bazilio Olara-Okello, Gino Cappello, and Frédéric Rossif. After him are Omero Tognon, Horst Bienek, An Wang, Tibor Berczelly, Ludwig von Moos, and Dan Ayrault.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Minoru Honda ranks 1,302 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroki Kosai (1933), Eijun Kiyokumo (1950), Takayuki Kubota (1934), Kappei Yamaguchi (1965), Takako Doi (1928), and Masafumi Terada (1994). After him are Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1931), Seiichiro Kashio (1892), Michitsuna's mother (935), Koto Matsudaira (1903), Eiji Ueda (1953), and Haruhiko Kuroda (1944).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Minoru Honda ranks 7. Before him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Hisashi Kimura (1870), and Hiroki Kosai (1933). After him are Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), and Kenzo Suzuki (1950).

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