Kōichirō Tomita

Koichiro Tomita (Japanese冨 田 弘一郎, Tomita Koichiro; * February 16, 1925, † 22 May 2006) was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of asteroids.

He discovered from the Observatoire de Calern (IAU code 010) from north of Grasse 1978-1982 a total of nine asteroids.

He is, together with the Japanese amateur astronomer Minoru Honda comet C/1964 discoverer of L1 ( Tomita -Gerber - Honda).

Tomita authored in Japanese language a book on comets, which was in 1982 translated into Russian and published in Russia.

The asteroid ( 2391 ) Tomita was named after him.