Toshiro Nomura

Minor planets discovered: 13
4106 NadaMarch 6, 1989[1]
4797 AkoSeptember 30, 1989[1]
5401 MinamiodaMarch 6, 1989[1]
5685 SanenobufukuiDecember 8, 1990[1]
5737 ItohSeptember 30, 1989[1]
5872 SuganoSeptember 30, 1989[1]
5881 AkashiSeptember 27, 1992[2]
6155 YokosuganoNovember 11, 1990[1]
6557 YokonomuraNovember 11, 1990[1]
7178 IkuookamotoNovember 11, 1990[1]
8892 KakogawaSeptember 11, 1994[2]
9580 TarumiOctober 4, 1989[1]
10318 SumauraOctober 15, 1990[1]
  1. 1 with K. Kawanishi
  2. 2 with M. Sugano

Toshiro Nomura (野村 敏郎, Nomura Toshirō; born 1954) is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of 13 asteroids with astronomers Kōyō Kawanishi and Matsuo Sugano.

He is also an earth-science teacher of Nada jr/sr highschool. The main-belt asteroid 6559 Nomura is named in his honor.

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