Minoru Honda
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ja:本田実 Minoru Honda (本田実) (February 26, 1913 – August 26 1990) was a Japanese astronomer.
He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova.
He was the first to report the very bright V1500 Cygni (Nova Cygni 1975) at magnitude 3.0 on August 29 1975; it peaked at 2.0, and many hundreds of independent discoveries were subsequently made by others. [1] (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/02800/02826.html#Item1)
The asteroid 3904 Honda is named after him, 8485 Satoru is named after his wife,and 11442 Seijin-Sanso is named after his astronomical observatory.[2] (http://www8.plala.or.jp/seijin/)