ASTRONOMER

Hiroshi Kaneda

1953 - Today

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Hiroshi Kaneda (金田 宏, Kaneda Hiroshi, born 1953) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets from Sapporo, in the northernmost prefecture of Japan. Kaneda ranks among the world's most prolific individual discoverers of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the co-discovery of 705 numbered minor planets, between 1987 and 2000, all of them in collaboration with astronomer Seiji Ueda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroshi Kaneda has received more than 26,820 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroshi Kaneda is the 469th most popular astronomer (up from 510th in 2019), the 1,338th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,473rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 469 out of 644. Before him are Luciano Tesi, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Stephen P. Synnott, Mary Adela Blagg, Alexander Voeikov, and Schelte J. Bus. After him are Holger Thiele, Royal Harwood Frost, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Pelageya Shajn, and Forest Ray Moulton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 345. Before him are Alex Lifeson, Rachid Bouchareb, Trip Hawkins, Leonid Buryak, Hoshyar Zebari, and Robert Guédiguian. After him are Günther Oettinger, Thomas Ligotti, Xabier Azkargorta, Adrie van Kraay, Tony Carey, and Christian Lopez.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 1,338 out of 6,245. Before him are Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), Keiko Awaji (1933), Kaori Momoi (1951), Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), Mana (1969), and Masaharu Fukuyama (1969). After him are Takekazu Asaka (1952), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), Masae Suzuki (1957), Masashi Nakayama (1967), Kikuko Inoue (1964), and Takashi Tezuka (1960).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 5. Before him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), and Tsutomu Seki (1930). After him are Hiroki Kosai (1933), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Minoru Honda (1913), and Okuro Oikawa (1896).

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