Tsuneo Niijima

Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo, born 1955) is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer.

[1] He also co-discovered 112P/Urata-Niijima, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family in 1986.

[3] The main-belt asteroid 5507 Niijima, discovered by Takeshi Urata and Kenzo Suzuki, was named in his honor.

[2] Naming citation was published on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C.

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