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Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo, born 1955) is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer.
He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 32 numbered minor planets between 1986 and 1996. He also co-discovered 112P/Urata-Niijima, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family in 1986.
The main-belt asteroid 5507 Niijima, discovered by Takeshi Urata and Kenzo Suzuki, was named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C. 22510).
List of discovered minor planets
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- Daftar penemu planet minor
- Tsuneo Niijima
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- Kiyotaka Kanai
- 112P/Urata–Niijima
- Meanings of minor-planet names: 5001–6000
- List of astronomers
- List of minor planet discoverers
- Shosanbetsu Observatory
- Aizu
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