Hiroshi_Araki Knowpia

**Minor planets discovered: 3** ^[1]
co-discovered with: ^A I. Satō, ^B M. Abe
26887 Tokyogiants	14 October 1994	list · ^[A]
46632 RISE	14 October 1994	list · ^[A]
100267 JAXA	14 October 1994	list · ^[A]^[B]

Hiroshi Araki (荒木博志, Araki Hiroshi) is a Japanese astronomer. He works at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Mizusawa VLBI observatory in Ōshū, and was the Science Team sub-Leader of the MUSES-C mission. He has discovered three asteroids.^[1] With colleagues at the observatory, he has created a detailed topographic map of the Moon.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ "New light on Moon's far side". Institute of Physics. 12 February 2009. Retrieved 29 February 2016.

"Detailed map shows dry Moon" - Canada
"Crustal thickness of the Moon: Implications for farside basin structures" - GRL
"Moonlight project - Observations of Lunar rotation and Ephemeris by optical methods on the Moon"
Spacewarn Bulletin - NASA
"Moon's Puzzling, Thick-Skinned Far Side" - Sky and Telescope Archived 24 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
"New high-res maps suggest little water in moon" - Universe Today
"CCD Centroiding Experiment for the Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission (JASMINE) and In Situ Lunar Orientation Measurement (ILOM)"
"Development of an LD pumped Nd:YAG Oscillator for Space-borne LaserAItimeter"