astronomy

Kin Endate

Kin Endate is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Kin Endate rather than just read about it. In short: Kin Endate (円館金, Endate Kin; born December 15, 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered hundreds of asteroids, most of them in collaboration with Kazuro Watanabe, placing him among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets. Career in astronomy Kin Endate was born in Iwaizumi in Iwate Prefecture and went to Hokkaido Designers School to study photography.

Key takeaways

Kin Endate belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Kin Endate to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Kin Endate from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Kin Endate (円館金, Endate Kin; born December 15, 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered hundreds of asteroids, most of them in collaboration with Kazuro Watanabe, placing him among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets.

Career in astronomy Kin Endate was born in Iwaizumi in Iwate Prefecture and went to Hokkaido Designers School to study photography. He began taking astrophotos in high school, but did not begin serious asteroid observations until 1986. His notable discoveries include the minor planets 5648 Axius and 6500 Kodaira, a Jupiter trojan and a Mars-crosser asteroid, respectively. He also recorded the first known precovery images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his private 10-inch (25 cm) diameter telescope on March 15, 1993, ten days before the official discovery of the comet. Kin, who was looking specifically for asteroids, did not know of the comet in his images until after the official discovery.

Awards and honors The main-belt asteroid 4282 Endate, discovered by his colleagues Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro in 1987, was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 July 1990 (M.P.C. 16593).

List of discovered minor planets

Most asteroids were discovered by Kin Endate in collaboration with A Kazuro Watanabe

See also List of minor planet discoverers § K. Endate

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Kin Endate

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Kin Endate claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Kin Endate before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Kin Endate ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Kin Endate

In research: Kin Endate appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Kin Endate in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Kin Endate is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1960 births, 20th-century Japanese astronomers, 21st-century Japanese astronomers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Kin Endate outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Kin Endate in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Kin Endate means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Kin Endate out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Kin Endate in simple terms?

Why does Kin Endate matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Kin Endate?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Kin Endate.