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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 24,381 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hiroshi Kaneda is the 510th most popular astronomer (down from 488th in 2019), the 1,476th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,371st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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  • 41.66

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  • 19

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  • 7.87

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  • 1.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 510 out of 531Before him are Kiichirō Furukawa, Luciano Tesi, Adriaan van Maanen, David C. Jewitt, Okuro Oikawa, and Pavel Shternberg. After him are Thomas Brisbane, Takao Kobayashi, Yoshisada Shimizu, Fernand Rigaux, Ernest Esclangon, and Kenzo Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 443Before him are Chen Danqing, Mehmed Uzun, Judith Curry, Bernt Johansson, David Thompson, and Keith Allen. After him are Jay O. Sanders, Zoltán Magyar, Kenneth Rogoff, Scott Hicks, John Edwards, and M. K. Stalin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 1,476 out of 6,048Before him are Ringo Sheena (1978), Shinsuke Nakamura (1980), Kimiko Date (1970), Satoshi Miyauchi (1959), Rie Tanaka (1979), and Maaya Sakamoto (1980). After him are Tomokazu Sugita (1980), Yahiro Kazama (1961), Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Kinuko Tanida (1939), Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (1968), and Rie Miyazawa (1973).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Hiroshi Kaneda ranks 11Before him are Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Seiji Ueda (1952), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), and Okuro Oikawa (1896). After him are Takao Kobayashi (1961), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Kin Endate (1960), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), Hiroshi Mori (1958), and Naoto Satō (1953).