| Minoru Honda | |
| Native Name: | 本田 実 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 26 February 1913 |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Fields: | Astronomy |
| Workplaces: | Zodiacal Light Observatory |
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| Known For: | Discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968 |
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was a Japanese astronomer. Starting in 1937, Honda worked for Issei Yamamoto at the Zodiacal Light Observatory in Hiroshima.[1]
He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková.
He discovered on FH Serpentis (Nova Serpentis 1970) on February 13, 1970 from Kurashiki, Japan.[2] [3]
He was the first to report the very bright V1500 Cygni (Nova Cygni 1975) at magnitude 3.0 on August 29, 1975; it peaked at 2.0, and many hundreds of independent discoveries were subsequently made by others.[4]
The asteroid 3904 Honda is named after him, 8485 Satoru is named after his wife, and 11442 Seijin-Sanso is named after his astronomical observatory.[5]