Nobuhiro Kawasato


Nobuhiro Kawasato is a Japanese astronomer credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 105 asteroids he made partially in collaboration with astronomer Tsutomu Hioki at Okutama Observatory, Japan, between 1988 and 2000.
He is also known for the recovery of 724 Hapag in 1988, a long-lost asteroid discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1911. As of 2016, most of his discoveries, such as the inner main-belt asteroid, remain unnamed.
The Mars-crosser asteroid 4910 Kawasato, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth, was named in his honor on 1 September 1993.

List of discovered minor planets

9 October 1993
10 January 1992
27 February 1992
25 October 1992
2 January 1989 
29 October 1989 
16 April 1991
8 October 1989 
27 September 1997
7 November 1988 
25 October 1992
8 March 1989 
3 April 1991
25 October 1992
7 December 1988 
25 October 1992
31 October 1992
31 October 1992
9 October 1993
31 August 1994

9 January 1999
31 October 1992
29 October 1989 
5 November 1999
5 November 1999
8 October 1997
16 December 1998
3 December 1999
19 January 1998
19 January 1998
19 December 1998
18 January 1999
28 January 2000
18 January 1999
20 January 1999
2 February 2000
19 December 1998
12 February 1999
16 September 1998
5 November 1999