Takuo Kojima


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Takuo Kojima is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 45 asteroids he made between 1987 and 2000. Takuo Kojima also writes a regular column for the astronomy magazine Gekkan Temmon titled the "Comet Observers Guide. The main-belt asteroid 3644 Kojitaku is named after him.

List of discovered minor planets

3774 MegumiDecember 20, 1987
3786 YamadaJanuary 10, 1988
3829 GunmaMarch 10, 1988
3995 SakainoDecember 5, 1988
3998 TezukaJanuary 1, 1989
3999 AristarchusJanuary 5, 1989
4041 MiyamotoyohkoFebruary 19, 1988
4156 OkadanoboruJanuary 16, 1988
4288 TokyotechOctober 8, 1989
4493 NaitomitsuOctober 14, 1988
4576 YanotoyohikoFebruary 10, 1988
4632 UdagawaDecember 17, 1987
4866 BadilloNovember 10, 1988
4949 AkasofuNovember 29, 1988
5348 KennoguchiJanuary 16, 1988
5432 ImakiireNovember 3, 1988
5433 KairenNovember 10, 1988
5813 EizaburoNovember 3, 1988
6185 MitsumaDecember 20, 1987
6298 SawaokaDecember 1, 1988
December 5, 1988
October 29, 1989
November 11, 1988
December 25, 1987
7517 AlisondoaneJanuary 3, 1989