Osamu Muramatsu

Osamu Muramatsu (村松 修, Muramatsu Osamu, born 1949) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets.

[2] He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 73 minor planets.

Muramatsu works at the planetarium in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan.

The inner main-belt asteroid 5606 Muramatsu, discovered by astronomer and college Satoru Otomo, was named in his honor on 28 July 1999 (M.P.C.

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