Minoru Kizawa
# Minoru Kizawa

Asteroids discovered: 12 :

| 4094 Aoshima | August 26, 1987 | MPC |
| - | - | - |
| 4507 Petercollins | March 19, 1990 | MPC |
| 5292 Mackwell | January 12, 1991 | MPC |
| 5513 Yukio | November 27, 1988 | MPC |
| (6178) 1986 DA | February 16, 1986 | MPC |
| (6393) 1990 HM1 | April 29, 1990 | MPC |
| (6785) 1990 VA7 | November 12, 1990 | MPC |
| (7338) 1990 $VJ_3$ | November 12, 1990 | MPC |
| (7574) 1989 $WO_1$ | November 20, 1989 | MPC |
| (9765) 1991 XZ | December 14, 1991 | MPC |
| (17464) 1990 $VX_1$ | November 11, 1990 | MPC |
| (19171) 1991 FS | March 17, 1991 | MPC |
| $^1$ with W. Kakei, $^2$ with H. Shiozawa, $^3$ with T. Urata |||

Minoru Kizawa (鬼沢 稔, Kizawa Minoru, born 1947) is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

Between 1986 and 1991, he has discovered or co-discovered 16 of asteroids at the Nihondaira Observatory in Shimizu, Japan. He is credited as sole discoverer of (6178) 1986 DA, a 3-kilometer near-Earth object belonging to the group of Amor asteroids. His co-discoverers were the Japanese astronomers Takeshi Urata, Watari Kakei and Hitoshi Shiozawa (see adjunct table).

