Hōei Nojiri
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. See also   
 Osaragi Jirō [information on family]  
 3008 Nojiri (main-belt asteroid)

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1885 births
1977 deaths
20th-century Japanese astronomers
Japanese writers
People from Yokohama