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Tomimaru Okuni

1931 - Today

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Tomimaru Okuni (大国 富丸, Ōkuni Tomimaru; born 1931) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at the Nanyo Observatory (358), Yamagata prefecture, Japan. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, credited by the Minor Planet Center with a total of 130 discoveries between 1995 and 2000. The main-belt asteroid 7769 Okuni, discovered by Satoru Otomo at the Kiyosato Observatory in 1991, is named in his honour. Naming citation was published on 9 January 2001 (M.P.C. 41935). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomimaru Okuni is the 556th most popular astronomer (up from 585th in 2019), the 1,659th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,812th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Tomimaru Okuni ranks 556 out of 644. Before him are Roy A. Tucker, Charles W. Juels, Thomas Brisbane, Madge Adam, Irwin I. Shapiro, and Seiji Ueda. After him are Takao Kobayashi, Scott S. Sheppard, Kazimierz Kordylewski, John Dobson, Lawrence H. Aller, and Carlos Torres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Tomimaru Okuni ranks 517. Before him are Federico Edwards, Gordon Pirie, Billy Bingham, Marc Bouissou, Ann Rule, and Gustav-Adolf Schur. After him are Flora Nwapa, Carlos Graça, Ray Bryant, István Gulyás, Algis Budrys, and Tadeusz Rut.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomimaru Okuni ranks 1,659 out of 6,245. Before him are LiSA (1987), Nikka Costa (1972), Kazumasa Shimizu (1976), Ryota Takahashi (1986), Yoshioka Yayoi (1871), and Minato Yoshida (1992). After him are Yoshiyuki Matsuyama (1966), Futaba Kioka (1965), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Tsuyoshi Nakao (1983), Midori Ito (1969), and Takeshi Watanabe (1972).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Tomimaru Okuni ranks 15. Before him are Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), and Seiji Ueda (1952). After him are Takao Kobayashi (1961), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), Kin Endate (1960), Naoto Satō (1953), Masaru Arai (1952), and Alan Hale (1958).

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