Taku

(1988 XB5 )
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NOW @ 24 CAP 28
FOUND @ 1 GEM 31
 
Inclination: 4.794
Eccentricity: 0.104
Period: 3.363 years
AU 2.245
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

5.12.1988 15:13 Kiso 137e38 35n48 observations 1


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Named in memory of Hiroshi Nakamura (1891–1974), Japanese medical biochemist and researcher of old maps. He was often called Taku, since the Chinese character representing his first name can also be pronounced as Taku. He is well-known in the community of historical cartography as twice the winner of the Imago Mundi prize, awarded by the authoritative international journal on old maps. Taku was a long-time member of the editorial board of this journal. He wrote several important books and papers on far-east Asian maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He showed that, contrary to Western understanding, European sea charts and maps of far-east Asia then being made were largely influenced by the knowledge of contemporary Japanese and Chinese sailors. (M 34354) _ _.


Discovered on 5-12-1988 in Kiso by Nakamura, T.

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