Yoshiaki Banno
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Asteroid
Asteroid
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  1. with Takeshi Urata
    Takeshi Urata
    is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory.In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet in over fifty years. He named it after it his daughter, Mizuho. His pioneering feat led to an upsurge in such discoveries. In the...


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was a Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese 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 co-discovered the asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 4200 Shizukagozen
4200 Shizukagozen
4200 Shizukagozen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 28, 1983 by Yoshiaki Banno and Takeshi Urata at Karasuyama.- External links :*...

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The asteroid 3394 Banno
3394 Banno
3394 Banno is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 16, 1986 by Inoda, S. and Urata, T. at Karasuyama.- External links :*...

is named after him. Banno died in a traffic accident in 1991.
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