Hiroshi Kaneda
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is a Japanese astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

. He is the eighth most prolific individual discoverer of asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s. Between 1987 and 2000, Kaneda (in collaboration with Seiji Ueda
Seiji Ueda
is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. Between 1987 and 2000, Ueda discovered 705 asteroids. Asteroid 4676 Uedaseiji, discovered in 1990, is named for him....

) discovered 705 asteroids. Asteroid 4677 Hiroshi
4677 Hiroshi
4677 Hiroshi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1990 by Takahashi and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

, discovered in 1990, is named after him. Along with being an astronomer, Kaneda has worked as a computer programmer who "has written much astrological software".
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