Tsuneo Niijima

Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo; born 1955) is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer.^[2]

Minor planets discovered: 32^[1]

see § List of discovered minor planets

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.^[1] He also co-discovered 112P/Urata-Niijima, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family in 1986.^[3]

The main-belt asteroid 5507 Niijima, discovered by Takeshi Urata and Kenzo Suzuki, was named in his honor.^[2] Naming citation was published on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C. 22510).^[4]

List of discovered minor planets

See also: Category:Discoveries by Tsuneo Niijima

3565 Ojima	22 December 1986	list[A]
3585 Goshirakawa	28 January 1987	list[A]
3686 Antoku	3 March 1987	list[A]
4375 Kiyomori	28 February 1987	list[A]
4376 Shigemori	20 March 1987	list[A]
4377 Koremori	4 April 1987	list[A]
4402 Tsunemori	25 February 1987	list[A]
4574 Yoshinaka	20 December 1986	list[A]
4767 Sutoku	4 April 1987	list[A]
4896 Tomoegozen	20 December 1986	list[A]
5578 Takakura	28 January 1987	list[A]
5830 Simohiro	9 March 1991	list[A]

5912 Oyatoshiyuki	20 December 1989	list[A]
6158 Shosanbetsu	12 November 1991	list[A]
7139 Tsubokawa	14 February 1994	list[A]
7202 Kigoshi	19 February 1995	list[A]
(7748) 1987 TA	12 October 1987	list[A]
7752 Otauchunokai	31 October 1988	list[B]
8344 Babette	25 January 1987	list[A]
(8565) 1995 WB6	24 November 1995	list[A]
10162 Issunboushi	2 January 1995	list[A]
10727 Akitsushima	25 February 1987	list[A]
(13148) 1995 EF	1 March 1995	list[A]
(17406) 1987 DO	25 February 1987	list[A]

17472 Dinah	17 March 1991	list[A]
(20999) 1987 BF	28 January 1987	list[A]
(23476) 1990 VE4	15 November 1990	list[A]
26168 Kanaikiyotaka	24 November 1995	list
26170 Kazuhiko	24 January 1996	list
(39637) 1995 EG	1 March 1995	list[A]
(39664) 1995 WW4	20 November 1995	list[A]
(58147) 1986 WK	29 November 1986	list[A]
Co-discovery made with: A T. Urata B K. Kanai