ASTRONOMER

Hiroshi Mori

1958 - Today

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Hiroshi Mori (森 弘, Mori Hiroshi, born 1958) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 45 numbered minor planets in collaboration with amateur astronomer Masaru Arai at Yorii Observatory during 1988–1991. The main-belt asteroid 19190 Morihiroshi, discovered by Japanese astronomers Tsutomu Hioki and Shuji Hayakawa in 1992, was named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 6 January 2003 (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroshi Mori has received more than 4,115 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hiroshi Mori is the 603rd most popular astronomer (down from 538th in 2019), the 1,961st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,759th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hiroshi Mori ranks 603 out of 644Before him are Wendy Freedman, Richard van der Riet Woolley, Françoise Combes, Osamu Muramatsu, Naoto Satō, and Masaru Arai. After him are Miloš Tichý, Chad Trujillo, James Gunn, William Kwong Yu Yeung, Frank B. Zoltowski, and Philip Herbert Cowell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Hiroshi Mori ranks 628Before him are Brice Hortefeux, Mary Decker, Norbert Meier, Doris de Agostini, Toyah Willcox, and Martin Odersky. After him are Steve Antin, Nancy J. Currie-Gregg, Margot Käßmann, Béla Fleck, Dominique Voynet, and Kavita Krishnamurthy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Mori ranks 1,961 out of 6,245Before him are Hideaki Tomiyama (1957), No Min-woo (1986), Takashi Fukunishi (1976), Takashi Kuwahara (1948), Aoi Yūki (1992), and Ryuzo Morioka (1975). After him are Ryoichi Maeda (1981), Hitoshi Nakata (1962), Tadanari Lee (1985), Mitsunori Yoshida (1962), Tetsuya Asano (1967), and Misia (1978).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Hiroshi Mori ranks 23Before him are Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Masayuki Yanai (1959), Tomimaru Okuni (1931), Alan Hale (1958), Naoto Satō (1953), and Masaru Arai (1952). After him are Akimasa Nakamura (1961), Tetsuo Kagawa (1969), and Toshimasa Furuta (2000).