is a Japanese

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...

. He is a prolific discoverer of

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...

List of discovered minor planets

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Furuta, Toshimasa Living people 21st-century Japanese astronomers Discoverers of asteroids * 20th-century Japanese astronomers Year of birth missing (living people)