Hiroshi Araki - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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100267 JAXA

100267 JAXA is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1994 by I. Sato, M. Abe and H. Araki at Kiso Observatory.-External links:* -References:...

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with Isao Satō

with Isao Satō　and M. Abe

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is a Japanese astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

. He works at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

The is an astronomical research organisation comprising several facilities in Japan, as well as an observatory in Hawaii. It was established in 1988 as an amalgamation of three existing research organizations - the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory of the University of Tokyo, International Latitude...

's Mizusawa VLBI observatory in Ōshū

Oshu, Iwate

is the second largest city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan with a population of 127,804.The city was founded on February 20, 2006, as the result of a merger between the cities of Esashi and Mizusawa, the towns of Maesawa and Isawa and the village of Koromogawa from Isawa District...

, and was the Science Team sub-Leader of the MUSES-C

Hayabusa

was an unmanned spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis....

mission. He has discovered two asteroids. With colleagues at the observatory, he has created a detailed topographic map

Topographic map

A topographic map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines in modern mapping, but historically using a variety of methods. Traditional definitions require a topographic map to show both natural and man-made features...

of the Moon

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...

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