Shin Hirayama

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Shin Hirayama
平山信
Born	(1867-10-06)October 6, 1867 Tokyo, Japan
Died	June 2, 1945(1945-06-02) (aged 77)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Notable students	Discovering 498 Tokio and 727 Nipponia

Shin Hirayama (平山 信, Hirayama Shin, 1868–1945), also read as Makoto Hirayama, was the first Japanese astronomer to discover an asteroid. In 1900, he discovered 498 Tokio and 727 Nipponia.^[1] The crater Hirayama on the Moon is jointly named after him and Kiyotsugu Hirayama.