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Masayuki Iwamoto

Japanese astronomer

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Born 1954 · age 72Japan
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    Born 1954
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Updated 2026-07-21

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.

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