# Osamu Muramatsu

Minor planets discovered: 73 :
| 3432 Kobuchizawa | March 7, 1986 |
| 4033 Yatsugatake | March 16, 1986 |
| 4219 Nakamura | February 19, 1988 |
| 4458 Oizumi | January 21, 1990 |
| 4634 Shibuya | January 16, 1988 |
| 4640 Hara | April 1, 1989 |
| 5239 Reiki | November 14, 1990 |
| 5337 Aoki | June 6, 1991 |
| 5352 Fujita | December 27, 1989 |
| 5377 Komori | March 17, 1991 |
| 5379 Abehiroshi | April 16, 1991 |
| 5405 Neverland | April 11, 1991 |
| 5473 Yamanashi | November 5, 1988 |
| 5489 Oberkochen | January 17, 1993 |
| 5687 Yamamotoshinobu | January 13, 1991 |
| 5829 Ishidagoro | February 11, 1991 |
| (6138) 1991 JH1 | May 14, 1991 |
| 6308 Ebisuzaki | January 17, 1990 |
| 6395 Hilliard | October 21, 1990 |
| 6405 Komiyama | April 30, 1992 |
| 6464 Kaburaki | February 1, 1994 |
| 6520 Sugawa | April 16, 1991 |
| 6612 Hachioji | March 10, 1994 |
| 6643 Morikubo | November 7, 1990 |
| 6667 Sannaimura | March 14, 1994 |
| 6731 Hiei | January 24, 1992 |
| 6830 Johnbackus | May 5, 1991 |
| 6860 Sims | February 11, 1991 |
| 6865 Dunkerley | October 2, 1991 |
| 6868 Seiyauyeda | April 22, 1992 |
| 6910 Ikeguchi | March 17, 1991 |
| (6915) 1992 HH | April 30, 1992 |
| 7068 Minowa | November 26, 1994 |
| 7421 Kusaka | April 30, 1992 |
| (7514) 1986 ED | March 7, 1986 |
| 7575 Kimuraseiji | December 22, 1989 |
| (7765) 1991 AD | January 8, 1991 |
| 7775 Taiko | December 4, 1992 |
| (7821) 1991 AC | January 8, 1991 |
| 7830 Akihikotago | February 24, 1993 |
| 8276 Shigei | March 17, 1991 |
| (8532) 1992 YW$_3$ | December 29, 1992 |
| 8668 Satomimura | April 16, 1991 |
| 8691 Etsuko | October 21, 1992 |
| 8855 Miwa | May 3, 1991 |
| (8876) 1992 WU$_3$ | November 23, 1992 |
| 9041 Takane | February 9, 1991 |
| 9044 Kaoru | May 18, 1991 |
| 9190 Masako | November 4, 1991 |
| (9335) 1991 AA$_1$ | January 10, 1991 |
| 9844 Otani | November 23, 1989 |
| 10144 Bernardbigot | January 9, 1994 |
| 10566 Zabadak | January 14, 1994 |
| (11513) 1991 CE$_1$ | February 12, 1991 |
| 11528 Mie | December 3, 1991 |
| (12337) 1992 WV$_3$ | November 24, 1992 |
| 12342 Kudohmichiko | January 30, 1993 |
| (12735) 1991 VV$_1$ | November 4, 1991 |
| 14902 Miyairi | January 17, 1993 |
| (15269) 1990 XF | December 8, 1990 |
| 15350 Naganuma | November 3, 1994 |
| (15764) 1992 UL$_8$ | October 31, 1992 |
| 16599 Shorland | January 20, 1993 |
| (17558) 1994 AA$_1$ | January 4, 1994 |
| 17563 Tsuneyoshi | February 5, 1994 |
| (20042) 1993 CK$_1$ | February 15, 1993 |
| 27748 Vivianhoette | January 9, 1991 |
| 27791 Masaru | February 24, 1993 |
| 35062 Sakuranosyou | March 12, 1988 |
| (48594) 1994 VA$_2$ | November 3, 1994 |
| (73689) 1991 FK | March 17, 1991 |
| 73782 Yanagida | October 14, 1994 |
| 162011 Konnohmaru | January 4, 1994 |
| $^1$ with T. Urata $^2$ with M. Inoue $^3$ with Y. Kushida $^4$ with S. Izumikawa $^5$ with S. Otomo $^6$ with A. Tsuchikawa ||
Osamu Muramatsu (村松 修, Muramatsu Osamu, born 1949) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 73 minor planets. He also co-discovered 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu, a periodic comet.
Muramatsu works at the planetarium in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan. The inner main-belt asteroid 5606 Muramatsu, discovered by astronomer and college Satoru Otomo, was named in his honor on 28 July 1999 (M.P.C. 35483).