Hōei Nojiri
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| Death | 48 years ago |
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| 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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| ID | 1536392 |
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.