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Hōei Nojiri (野尻 抱影, Nojiri Hōei, November 15, 1885 – October 30, 1977) was a Japanese essayist and astronomer. He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhikoˀ, whose pen name was Osaragi Jirō.
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In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiōsei (冥王星, "Star of the King (God) of the Underworld") for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.[1][2][3]
See also
edit- Osaragi Jirō [information on family]
- 3008 Nojiri (main-belt asteroid)
References
edit- ^ Renshaw, Steve; Ihara, Saori (2000). "A Tribute to Houei Nojiri". Archived from the original on 2000-08-15. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ "Planetary Linguistics". Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ 'Bathrobe'. "Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese". cjvlang.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.