Hōei Nojiri Explained

was a Japanese essayist and astronomer. He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhikoˀ, whose pen name was Osaragi Jirō.

In 1930 he coined the Japanese word for the then-newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.[1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. Web site: Steve . Renshaw . Saori . Ihara . 2000 . A Tribute to Houei Nojiri . https://web.archive.org/web/20000815090347/http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/nojiri.htm . dead . 2000-08-15 . 29 November 2011 .
  2. Web site: Planetary Linguistics. 12 June 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071217070734/http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/days.html. 17 December 2007. dead.
  3. Web site: 'Bathrobe' . Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese . cjvlang.com . 29 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110907034232/http://cjvlang.com/Dow/UrNepPl.html . 7 September 2011.

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