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Yoshisada Shimizu

1943 - Today

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Yoshisada Shimizu (清水 義定, Shimizu Yoshisada; born 1943) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as an astrophotographer. The central main-belt asteroid 7300 Yoshisada, discovered by astronomer Takeshi Urata in 1992, was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published on 18 August 1997 (M.P.C. 30478). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshisada Shimizu is the 580th most popular astronomer (down from 531st in 2019). (down from 4,452nd in 2019)

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Among astronomers, Yoshisada Shimizu ranks 580 out of 644. Before him are Kin Endate, David Rittenhouse, Rosaly Lopes, Naoto Satō, Mary Ward, and Makio Akiyama. After him are Masaru Arai, Peter Goldreich, Dorrit Hoffleit, Philip Herbert Cowell, Osamu Muramatsu, and Satoru Otomo.

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Among people born in 1943, Yoshisada Shimizu ranks 646. Before him are Ignacio Prieto, Manfred Schaefer, Andrzej Badeński, Tommy Gemmell, John McEnery, and Dick Van Arsdale. After him are Ben Jipcho, Béla Bollobás, Jackson C. Frank, Zdravko Hebel, Richard Moll, and Reita Faria.

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