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Hōei Nojiri

Japanese essayist and astronomer (1885–1977) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hōei Nojiri
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Hōei Nojiri (野尻 抱影, Nojiri Hōei; November 15, 1885 October 30, 1977) was a Japanese essayist and astronomer. He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhikoˀ, whose pen name was Osaragi Jirō.

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Hōei Nojiri.

In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiōsei (冥王星, "Star of the King (God) of the Underworld") for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.[1][2][3]

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