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Hōei Nojiri

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Death46 years ago
Date of birth November 15,1885
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Yokohama
Kanagawa Prefecture
Japan
Date of died October 30,1977
Siblings Jirō Osaragi
Job Astronomer
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Date of Upd.
ID1536392
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Hōei Nojiri Life story


Hōei Nojiri was a Japanese essayist and astronomer. He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhikoˀ, whose pen name was Osaragi Jirō. In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiōsei for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.

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