Hiroshi Mori (astronomer)

Minor planets discovered: 45 [1]
see § List of discovered minor planets

Hiroshi Mori (森 弘, Mori Hiroshi, born 1958) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.[2]

The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 45 numbered minor planets in collaboration with amateur astronomer Masaru Arai at Yorii Observatory during 1988–1991.[1]

The main-belt asteroid 19190 Morihiroshi, discovered by Japanese astronomers Tsutomu Hioki and Shuji Hayakawa in 1992, was named in his honor.[2] Naming citation was published on 6 January 2003 (M.P.C. 47301).[3]

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