# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masanori-hirasawa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:35:45.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masanori-hirasawa"
name: "Masanori Hirasawa"
slug: "masanori-hirasawa"
description: "Masanori Hirasawa  is a Japanese astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids. Between 1991 and 1998, he discovered 52 minor planets in collaboration with fellow observer Shohei Suzuki at Mount Nyukasa Station. Both astronomers are graduates of Waseda University, after which they named the asteroid 9350 Waseda in 1991. Hirasawa is also a teacher."
tagline: "Japanese astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.803852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ماسانوري هيراساوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa"
    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa"
    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa"
    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa"
    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa"
    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E6%B2%A2%E6%AD%A3%E8%A6%8F"
    title: "平沢正規"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa"
    title: "Masanori Hirasawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Хирасава, Масанори"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump