[meteorite-list] Comet Discoverer Hyakutake Dies At 51

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:50:26 2004
Message-ID: <200204111556.IAA24450_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=210973

Comet discoverer Hyakutake dies at 51
Kyodo News
April 11, 2002

KAGOSHIMA - Yuji Hyakutake, an amateur Japanese
astronomer who discovered "Comet Hyakutake" in
1996, died Wednesday evening in Kagoshima
Prefecture, due to internal bleeding caused by a
heart aneurysm, his family said Thursday. He was
51.

Hyakutake, a native of Nagasaki Prefecture, won
international acclaim after he found the new
comet, using a powerful pair of binoculars on Jan
30, 1996, in the town of Hayato in Kagoshima.
Received on Thu 11 Apr 2002 11:56:50 AM PDT