Masayuki Iwamoto

Minor planets discovered: 6
4835 AsaeusJanuary 29, 1989IAU[1]
5399 AwaJanuary 29, 1989MPC[1]
5581 MitsukoFebruary 10, 1989MPC[1]
6383 TokushimaDecember 12, 1988MPC[1]
9943 BizanOctober 29, 1989MPC[1]
27714 DochuJanuary 29, 1989MPC[1]
  1. 1 with T. Furuta

Masayuki Iwamoto (岩本 雅之, Iwamoto Masayuki; born 1954) 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 2021 for the discovery of C/2020 A2.

The inner main-belt asteroid 4951 Iwamoto, discovered by astronomers Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta, was named in his honor on 5 March 1996 (M.P.C. 26763).