Masayuki Iwamoto
# Masayuki Iwamoto

Minor planets discovered: 6 :

| (4835) 1989 BQ | January 29, 1989 | MPC |
| - | - | - |
| 5399 Awa | January 29, 1989 | MPC |
| 5581 Mitsuko | February 10, 1989 | MPC |
| 6383 Tokushima | December 12, 1988 | MPC |
| 9943 Bizan | October 29, 1989 | MPC |
| 27714 Dochu | January 29, 1989 | MPC |
| $^1$ with T. Furuta |||

Masayuki Iwamoto (岩本 雅之, Iwamoto Masayuki, born 1954) is a Japanese astronomer from Awa in the Tokushima Prefecture. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the co-discovery of 6 asteroids made together with Japanese astronomer Toshimasa Furuta at the Tokushima-Kainan Astronomical Observatory (872) in 1988 and 1989.

The inner main-belt asteroid 4951 Iwamoto, discovered by astronomers Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta, was named in his honor on 5 March 1996 (M.P.C. 26763).

