Hōei Nojiri

Hōei Nojiri (野尻 抱影, Nojiri Hōei^?, November 15, 1885 – October 30, 1977) 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 Meiōsei (冥王星^?, "Star of the King (God) of the Underworld") for the newly discovered planet Pluto. The name was then borrowed into Chinese and Korean.

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