Hōei Nojiri

{{Short description|Japanese essayist and astronomer (1885–1977)}}

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{{nihongo|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.

In 1930 he coined the Japanese word {{nihongo3|"Star of the King (God) of the Underworld"|冥王星|Meiōsei}} for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.

{{cite web

|first1=Steve

|last1=Renshaw

|first2=Saori

|last2=Ihara

|date=2000

|title=A Tribute to Houei Nojiri

|url=http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/nojiri.htm

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|archive-date=2000-08-15

|accessdate=29 November 2011

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{{cite web

| title = Planetary Linguistics

| url = http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/days.html

| accessdate = 12 June 2007

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071217070734/http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/days.html

| archivedate = 17 December 2007

| url-status=dead

}}

{{cite web

|author = Bathrobe

|title = Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese

|work = cjvlang.com

|url = http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/UrNepPl.html

|accessdate = 29 November 2011

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110907034232/http://cjvlang.com/Dow/UrNepPl.html

|archivedate = 7 September 2011

}}

== See also ==

• Osaragi Jirō [information on family]
• 3008 Nojiri (main-belt asteroid)