Akimasa Nakamura (中村 彰正 Nakamura Akimasa?, fl. 1990s) (b. 1961) is a Japanese astronomer. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but He has worked extensively at the Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory near Kuma, Ehime Prefecture, where he remains a staff member. The Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory is located at Kumakōgen in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. is a town located in Kamiukena District, Ehime, Japan. The town was formed on August 1, 2004 from the merger of the town of "Ehime" redirects here For the school ship see Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision. His observations of asteroid brightness are considered world-class.
The asteroid 10633 Akimasa (1998 DP1)[1], orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, is named after him and was named in 1999 to coincide with him becoming a father.
Nakamura named Main Belt asteroid 44711 Carp (1999 TD4) for "his favorite baseball team," the Hiroshima Carp. 44711 Carp (1999 TD4 is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on October 3, 1999 by A Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each The are a professional Baseball team in Japan 's Central League. [2]
References
- ^ 10633 Akimasa at NASA JPL Small-Body Database accessed 4 August 2007
- ^ August 2003 Asteroid/Comet/Meteor News accessed 4 August 2007
External links
- Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory - English version
- selected comet images by Nakamura
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