Shigeki Murakami (1962– ), born in Shiga Prefecture, is a senior researcher at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute and amateur astronomer in Japan. Using a homemade 0.46-m Dobsonian telescope, he codiscovered C/2002 E2. (M 46112) _ _.
Discovered on 22-5-1998 in Kuma Kogen by Nakamura, A.