Minoru Kizawa

Minoru Kizawa (鬼沢 稔) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

Between 1986 and 1991, he has discovered or co-discovered 16 of asteroids at the Nihondaira Observatory in Shimizu, Japan. He is credited as sole discoverer of, a 3-kilometer near-Earth object belonging to the group of Amor asteroids. His co-discoverers were the Japanese astronomers Takeshi Urata, Watari Kakei and Hitoshi Shiozawa (see adjunct table).