Hiroshi Araki

Asteroids discovered: 2

26887 Tokyogiants	October 14, 1994
100267 JAXA	October 14, 1994
1 with Isao Satō 2 with Isao Satō　and M. Abe

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 two asteroids. With colleagues at the observatory, he has created a detailed topographic map of the Moon.

External links

• "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
• "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 ofa LD pumped Nd:YAG Oscillator for Space-borne LaserAItimeter"