Hiroshi Kaneda

Hiroshi Kaneda (金田 宏, Kaneda Hiroshi, born 1953) is a Japanese astronomer. As of 20 March 2014 he is the ninth most prolific individual discoverer of asteroids. Between 1987 and 2000, Kaneda (in collaboration with Seiji Ueda) discovered 705 asteroids. Asteroid 4677 Hiroshi, discovered in 1990, is named after him. Along with being an astronomer, Kaneda has worked as a computer programmer who "has written much astrological software".

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