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. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
