Masayuki Iwamoto

Minor planets discovered: 6 [1]
4835 Asaeus January 29, 1989 IAU[1]
5399 Awa January 29, 1989 MPC[1]
5581 Mitsuko February 10, 1989 MPC[1]
6383 Tokushima December 12, 1988 MPC[1]
9943 Bizan October 29, 1989 MPC[1]
27714 Dochu January 29, 1989 MPC[1]
  1. 1 with T. Furuta

Masayuki Iwamoto (岩本 雅之, Iwamoto Masayuki, born 1954) is a Japanese astronomer from Awa in the Tokushima Prefecture.[2] The Minor Planet Center credits him with the co-discovery of 6 asteroids made together with Japanese astronomer Toshimasa Furuta at the Tokushima-Kainan Astronomical Observatory (872) in 1988 and 1989.[1] He also received the Edgar Wilson Award in 2013 for the discovery of comet C/2013 E2, in 2019 for the discovery of the comets C/2018 V1 and C/2018 Y1 and in 2021 for the discovery of C/2020 A2.[3]

The inner main-belt asteroid 4951 Iwamoto, discovered by astronomers Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta, was named in his honor on 5 March 1996 (M.P.C. 26763).[2][4]

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  3. ^ "The Edgar Wilson Award Recipients". www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
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