Kiyotaka Kanai

Minor planets discovered: 1[1]
7752 Otauchunokai 31 October 1988 MPC
co-discovery with Tsuneo Niijima

Kiyotaka Kanai (金井 清高, Kanai Kiyotaka, born 1951) is a Japanese amateur astronomer, observer of variable stars, discoverer of comet C/1970 B1, and co-discoverer of the main-belt asteroid 7752 Otauchunokai, named after the Ota Uchuno Kai group, an amateur astronomers' club at Ōta city, of which he is a member of.[2][3][4]

The inner main-belt asteroid 26168 Kanaikiyotaka was named after him on 21 September 2002 (M.P.C. 46684).[2][5]

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