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Toshiro Nomura

野村敏郎
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Toshiro Nomura (野村 敏郎, Nomura Toshirō; born 1954) is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of 13 asteroids with astronomers Kōyō Kawanishi and Matsuo Sugano. He is also an earth-science teacher of Nada Junior and High School. The main-belt asteroid 6559 Nomura is named in his honor.

Source: “Toshiro Nomura”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt