Takuo Kojima
{{Short description|Japanese astronomer}}
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| + Minor planets discovered: 45 | |
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{{nihongo|Takuo Kojima|小島 卓雄|Kojima Takuo|born 1955}} is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 45 asteroids he made between 1987 and 2000. Takuo Kojima also writes a regular column for the astronomy magazine Gekkan Temmon titled the "Comet Observers Guide. The main-belt asteroid 3644 Kojitaku is named after him.
List of discovered minor planets
{{see also|Category:Discoveries by Takuo Kojima}}
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| 3774 Megumi | December 20, 1987 |
| 3786 Yamada | January 10, 1988 |
| 3829 Gunma | March 10, 1988 |
| 3995 Sakaino | December 5, 1988 |
| 3998 Tezuka | January 1, 1989 |
| 3999 Aristarchus | January 5, 1989 |
| 4041 Miyamotoyohko | February 19, 1988 |
| 4156 Okadanoboru | January 16, 1988 |
| 4288 Tokyotech | October 8, 1989 |
| 4493 Naitomitsu | October 14, 1988 |
| 4576 Yanotoyohiko | February 10, 1988 |
| 4632 Udagawa | December 17, 1987 |
| 4866 Badillo | November 10, 1988 |
| 4949 Akasofu | November 29, 1988 |
| 5348 Kennoguchi | January 16, 1988 |
| 5432 Imakiire | November 3, 1988 |
| 5433 Kairen | November 10, 1988 |
| 5813 Eizaburo | November 3, 1988 |
| 6185 Mitsuma | December 20, 1987 |
| 6298 Sawaoka | December 1, 1988 |
| {{mp|(6551) 1988 XP}} | December 5, 1988 |
| {{mp|(6555) 1989 UU|1}} | October 29, 1989 |
| {{mp|(6706) 1988 VD|3}} | November 11, 1988 |
| {{mp|(7402) 1987 YH}} | December 25, 1987 |
| 7517 Alisondoane | January 3, 1989 |
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| {{mpl|(7563) 1988 BC}} | January 16, 1988 |
| {{mp|(7697) 1989 AE}} | January 3, 1989 |
| {{mp|(8219) 1996 JL}}{{ref label|codisc|1 |
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| 9321 Alexkonopliv || January 5, 1989
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| {{mpl|(9939) 1988 VK}} || November 3, 1988
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| 10064 Hirosetamotsu || October 31, 1988
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| 10744 Tsuruta || December 5, 1988
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| 10853 Aimoto || February 6, 1995
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| 11861 Teruhime || November 10, 1988
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| {{mp|(12037) 1997 CT|19}} || February 11, 1997
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| {{mp|(13023) 1988 XT|1}} || December 10, 1988
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| {{mp|(15832) 1995 CB|1}} || February 7, 1995
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| {{mp|(23570) 1995 AA}} || January 1, 1995
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| {{mp|(23572) 1995 AS|2}} || January 10, 1995
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| {{mp|(43088) 1999 WO|9}} || November 30, 1999
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| {{mp|(45263) 2000 AD|5}} || January 3, 2000
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| {{mp|(48421) 1988 VF}} || November 3, 1988
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| {{mp|(71236) 2000 AC|5}} || January 3, 2000
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| {{mp|(168551) 1999 WH|4}} || November 28, 1999
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| {{mp|(192864) 1999 WP|9}} || November 30, 1999
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- {{note label|codisc|1|}} with Robert H. McNaught
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References
{{Reflist
|refs=
|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
|date = 4 September 2016
|accessdate = 19 September 2016}}
|last= Kidger |first=Mark Richard
|title=Astronomical enigmas: life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, and other Milky Way mysteries
|date=2005
|publisher=JHU Press
|isbn=978-0-8018-8026-1
|pages=[https://archive.org/details/astronomicalenig00kidg/page/200 200]
|url=https://archive.org/details/astronomicalenig00kidg|url-access= registration |quote= Takuo Kojima. }}
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (3644) Kojitaku
|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = 306
|date = 2007
|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3642 |chapter = (3644) Kojitaku }}
}}
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