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Tetsuo Kagawa

1969 - Today

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Tetsuo Kagawa (香川 哲男, Kagawa Tetsuo; born 1969) is a Japanese astronomer, staff member at the Gekko Observatory and discoverer of asteroids. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 115 minor planets between 1997 and 2000. The outer main-belt asteroid 6665 Kagawa was named in his honor on 6 January 2003 (M.P.C. 47295). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tetsuo Kagawa is the 641st most popular astronomer (down from 627th in 2024), the 3,506th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,593rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Tetsuo Kagawa ranks 641 out of 644. Before him are Terry Lovejoy, Alan Stern, C. Michelle Olmstead, Zdeněk Moravec, Heidi Hammel, and Richard Kowalski. After him are James Gall, John J. Kavelaars, Lisa Kaltenegger, Konstantin Batygin, Amy Mainzer, and Feryal Özel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Tetsuo Kagawa ranks 1,119. Before him are Dion Dublin, María Quintanal, Irek Zinnurov, Pavlo Khnykin, György Zala, and Lars Bohinen. After him are Ebele Okoye, Yasushi Matsumoto, José Alves dos Santos Júnior, Takeshi Yonezawa, Andrew Breitbart, and Ryo Adachi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsuo Kagawa ranks 3,513 out of 6,245. Before him are Kiyoto Furushima (1968), Matt Heafy (1986), Rina Aiuchi (1980), Hideki Nagai (1971), Mayu Watanabe (1994), and Masato Harasaki (1974). After him are Ayumi Fujimura (1982), Kei Yamaguchi (1983), Mitsunori Yabuta (1976), Yasushi Matsumoto (1969), Yuko Ogura (1983), and Kenji Inoue (1976).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Tetsuo Kagawa ranks 25. Before him are Naoto Satō (1953), Masaru Arai (1952), Alan Hale (1958), Masayuki Yanai (1959), Hiroshi Mori (1958), and Akimasa Nakamura (1961). After him are Toshimasa Furuta (2000).

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