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Okuro Oikawa

1896 - 1970

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Okuro Oikawa (及川 奥郎, Oikawa Okurō, 1896–1970) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered 8 asteroids between 1927 and 1929. The outer main-belt asteroid 2667 Oikawa was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 1 June 1996 (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Okuro Oikawa has received more than 12,228 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Okuro Oikawa is the 508th most popular astronomer (down from 462nd in 2019), the 1,454th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,209th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Okuro Oikawa ranks 508 out of 531. Before him are Hiroki Kosai, Seiji Ueda, Kiichirō Furukawa, Luciano Tesi, Adriaan van Maanen, and David C. Jewitt. After him are Pavel Shternberg, Hiroshi Kaneda, Thomas Brisbane, Takao Kobayashi, Yoshisada Shimizu, and Fernand Rigaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Okuro Oikawa ranks 235. Before him are Heinz Prüfer, Liam O'Flaherty, Natalie Talmadge, Yip Harburg, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Rodolfo Terlizzi. After him are Gopal Swarup Pathak, Priscilla Dean, Pavel Antokolsky, Cyril Slater, Erle C. Kenton, and William Cameron Townsend. Among people deceased in 1970, Okuro Oikawa ranks 225. Before him are Matthias Heidemann, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Edward Everett Horton, William Hopper, Anita Louise, and Richard Hofstadter. After him are Marjorie Rambeau, Booker Ervin, John T. Scopes, Earl Hooker, William Daniels, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Okuro Oikawa ranks 1,454 out of 6,048. Before him are Yuji Horii (1954), Fumito Ueda (1970), Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986), Tomio Okamura (1972), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), and Sana (1996). After him are Eijun Kiyokumo (1950), Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939), Kumiko Okae (1956), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Masaaki Shirakawa (1949), and Yuji Naka (1965).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Okuro Oikawa ranks 10. Before him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Seiji Ueda (1952), and Kiichirō Furukawa (1929). After him are Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Kin Endate (1960), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), and Hiroshi Mori (1958).

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