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Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo, born 1955) is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer.

He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 32 numbered minor planets between 1986 and 1996. He also co-discovered 112P/Urata-Niijima, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family in 1986.

The main-belt asteroid 5507 Niijima, discovered by Takeshi Urata and Kenzo Suzuki, was named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C. 22510).

List of discovered minor planets

References

1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
2. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(5507) Niijima". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (5507) Niijima. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 470. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5261. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
3. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 112P/Urata-Niijima". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
4. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 23 July 2016.

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