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Takuo Kojima (小島 卓雄, Kojima Takuo, born 1955) 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

References

1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
2. Kidger, Mark Richard (2005). Astronomical enigmas: life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, and other Milky Way mysteries. JHU Press. pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-8018-8026-1. Takuo Kojima.
3. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(3644) Kojitaku". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (3644) Kojitaku. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 306. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3642. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.

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