Seiji Ueda

Minor planets discovered: 705 [1]
credited by the MPC, as per August 2016

Seiji Ueda (上田 清二, Ueda Seiji, born 1952[2]) is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Between 1987 and 2000, Ueda (in collaboration with Hiroshi Kaneda) discovered 705 asteroids.[3]

He holds an MD and Ph.D. from Stanford University and is on the staff at the Graduate University for Advanced Study in Japan. The inner main-belt asteroid 4676 Uedaseiji, discovered in 1990, is named for him.[2]

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  3. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers".