Takeshi Urata

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Takeshi Urata (浦田武) is a Japanese astronomer.

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory.

He co-discovered the periodic comet 112P/Urata-Niijima.

The asteroid 3722 Urata is named after him.

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