Hōei Nojiri
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Script error: No such module "Nihongo". 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 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.[1][2][3]
See also
- Osaragi Jirō [information on family]
- 3008 Nojiri (main-belt asteroid)