Sadao Sei
{{Short description|Japanese astronomer}}
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| 2909 Hoshi-no-ie | 9 May 1983 | {{MPC|2909}} |
{{nihongo|Sadao Sei|清 貞雄|Sei Sadao| extra=}} is a Japanese astronomer who discovered an asteroid in 1983.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 2909 Hoshi-no-ie, a main-belt asteroid of the Eos family, which he named after his observatory. The meaning of "Hoshi-no-ie" is "a star house". Naming citation was published on 17 February 1984 ({{small|M.P.C. 8544}}).
References
{{Reflist
|refs=
|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
|date = 23 May 2016
|accessdate = 20 June 2016}}
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (2909) Hoshi-no-ie
|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = 239
|date = 2007
|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_2910 |chapter = (2909) Hoshi-no-ie }}
|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
|accessdate = 5 July 2016}}
}}
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Category:Discoverers of asteroids
Category:20th-century Japanese astronomers
Category:Possibly living people
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