- Source: Yoshisada Shimizu
Yoshisada Shimizu (清水 義定, Shimizu Yoshisada, born 1943) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as an astrophotographer.
The central main-belt asteroid 7300 Yoshisada, discovered by astronomer Takeshi Urata in 1992, was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published on 18 August 1997 (M.P.C. 30478).
List of discovered minor planets
See also
List of minor planet discoverers § Y. Shimizu
References
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- List of minor planets: 7001–8000
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