• Source: Masayuki Yanai

Masayuki Yanai (箭内 政之, Yanai Masayuki, born 1959) is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific co-discoverer of minor planets. One of his co-discoveries is the dark, inner main-belt asteroid 3915 Fukushima. He retired from docent for astronomy at Sapporo Science Center.
The asteroid 4260 Yanai, discovered by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro Observatory (399) in 1989, was named in his honor on 8 July 1990 (M.P.C. 16593).




List of discovered minor planets






See also


List of minor planets: 17001–18000
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan




References






External links


"NAOJ News". National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
"OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections". Orbit Astronomy Association. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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