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Moved to article space: Kin Endate 03:29, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

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This is not a Wikipedia article. You can't cite it, can't really reuse stuff anywhere else, and you're not supposed to link to it. That's why it's in my user namespace, because it's not ready to be a real wiki article just yet.

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What this is, is a draft. Specifically, a draft of an article about Kin Endate, a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered dozens of asteroids and recorded the first known images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The article was deleted in early 2010 for lack of notability. I believe that Endate is sufficiently notable (and that pertinent information was not in the article and thus not discussed in the deletion discussion), but the article requires significant rewriting, citation, and justification of notability before it can be reintroduced as an article on Wikipedia. The draft is down below.


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Kin Endate (円館 金, born 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered over 593 asteroids (571 with Kazuro Watanabe and 22 separately [1]), placing him among the most prolific discovers of minor planets. His discoveries include the Trojan asteroid (5648) 1990 VU1 and the Mars-crossing asteroid 6500 Kodaira. He also recorded the first known images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his private 10-inch (25 cm) diameter telescope on March 15, 1993, 10 days before the official discovery of the comet. (Kin, who was looking specifically for asteroids, did not know of the comet in his images until after the official discovery.) [2]

He was born in Iwaizumi in Iwate Prefecture and went to Hokkaido Designers School for photography. He began taking astrophotos in high school, but did not begin serious asteroid observations until 1986 [3]

Two asteroids have been named in his honor: 4282 Endate for him, and 4460 Bihoro after the city in which he lives. [4]

See Also

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Asteroids discovered by Endate

References

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  1. ^ IAU Minor Planet Center. Minor Planet Discoverers 30 Jan 2010
  2. ^ Spencer, John Robert and Mitton, Jacqueline. The Great Comet Crash. Cambridge University Press, 1995. P. 13-14
  3. ^ Endate, Kin. The Monochromatic World
  4. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. and International Astronomical Union. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer, 2002. P. 367, 383-4
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