Takafumi Matsui (b. 1946) is Director of the Planetary Exploration Research Center at the Chiba Institute of Technology, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in astrobiology and comparative planetology, and the study of meteoroid impacts on the evolution of the Earth and life.
Discovered on 2-1-1993 in Yakiimo by Natori, A., Urata, T.