# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masayuki-iwamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:44:36.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masayuki-iwamoto"
name: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
slug: "masayuki-iwamoto"
description: "Masayuki Iwamoto  is a Japanese astronomer from Awa in the Tokushima Prefecture. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the co-discovery of 6 asteroids made together with Japanese astronomer Toshimasa Furuta at the Tokushima-Kainan Astronomical Observatory (872) in 1988 and 1989. He also received the Edgar Wilson Award in 2013 for the discovery of comet C/2013 E2, in 2019 for the discovery of the comets C/2018 V1 and C/2018 Y1, and in 2020 for the discovery of C/2020 A2."
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: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.936357333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E6%9C%AC%E9%9B%85%E4%B9%8B"
    title: "岩本雅之"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF%D5%AB_%D4%BB%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%B8%D5%BF%D5%B8"
    title: "Մասայուկի Իվամոտո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E6%9C%AC%E9%9B%85%E4%B9%8B"
    title: "岩本雅之"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Iwamoto"
    title: "Masayuki Iwamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1906798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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