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Kin Endate
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered 614 asteroids (571 with Kazuro Watanabe and 43 separately 〔IAU Minor Planet Center. (Minor Planet Discoverers ) 14 Aug. 2011〕), placing him among the most prolific discoverers 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 precovery images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his private diameter telescope on March 15, 1993, ten 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. 〔Spencer, John Robert and Mitton, Jacqueline. (The Great Comet Crash ). Cambridge University Press, 1995. P. 13-14〕〔(D/1993 F2 Shoemaker-Levy 9 ) Cometography. Retrieved 16 Jan 2010.〕
Two asteroids have been named in his honor: 4282 Endate after him,〔(Minor Planet Circular 16593 )(PDF) IAU Minor Planet Center. 8 June 1990.〕 and 4460 Bihoro after the city in which he lives.〔(Minor Planet Circular 16595 )(PDF) IAU Minor Planet Center. 8 June 1990.〕〔Schmadel, Lutz D. and International Astronomical Union. (Dictionary of Minor Planet Names ). Springer, 2002. P. 367, 383-4〕
He was born in Iwaizumi in Iwate Prefecture and went to Hokkaido Designers School to study photography. He began taking astrophotos in high school, but did not begin serious asteroid observations until 1986.〔〔Endate, Kin. (The Monochromatic World )〕
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