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Add another one to the dead scientists's list. Is discovering a comet as important as knowing how to cure anthrax?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Enjoy new investment freedom! Get the tools you need to successfully manage your portfolio from CSFBdirect. Start with award-winning research. Then add access to round-the-clock customer service from Series-7 trained representatives. Open an account today and receive a $100 credit! http://www.csfbdirect.com/b4.htm \----------------------------------------------------------/ Yuji Hyakutake, 51, Discoverer of Comet, Dies April 12, 2002 By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO, April 11 - Yuji Hyakutake, a self-trained Japanese astronomer known for discovering a bright long-tailed comet in 1996, died on Wednesday in Kokubu, near Kagoshima in the south. He was 51. The cause was a heart attack after an artery had ruptured, his family said. Mr. Hyakutake made headlines when he found the comet on Jan. 30, 1996, with binoculars from a handmade observatory dome at his house in Hayato. The comet, recognized by the International Astronomical Union as Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake, became a bright object visible to the naked eye with a tail of up to 100 degrees. In March 1996, the comet traveled as close to Earth as 9.3 million miles. "I don't care about the naming of the comet," Mr. Hyakutake said about his fame. "If many people could enjoy that comet, that is the happiest thing for me." Mr. Hyakutake, who spotted another comet in December 1995, was attracted to astronomy in high school by the discovery of a comet by another Japanese, Kaoru Ikeya. Mr. Hyakutake graduated from an industrial college on Kyushu with a major in photography, worked at a newspaper and started comet hunting in 1989 on the side. Months after finding Comet Hyakutake, he became head of a municipal astronomical observatory in Aira, near his home. He continued to gaze at the skies, and last Sunday he discussed the universe with visitors to his observatory. Survivors include his wife, Shoko. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/obituaries/12HYAK.html?ex=1019621073&ei=1&en=ca5b1e056942f7bd HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
