A researcher in the department of geological sciences at Brown University, Takahiro (Taki) Hiroi (1960– ) has worked extensively on linking minor planets and meteorites using reflectance spectroscopy. His extensive database of meteorite spectra is widely used by the scientific community to pursue this endeavor. (M 41567) _ _.
Discovered on 2-3-1981 in Siding Spring by Bus, S. J.