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Ikeya Kaoru
Japanese amateur astronomer
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discovery of Comet Ikeya-Seki
- In Comet Ikeya-Seki
…by two Japanese amateur astronomers, Ikeya Kaoru and Seki Tsutomu. Moving in a highly inclined retrograde orbit, the comet made its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on October 21, 1965, at a distance of 1.67 solar radius, or only 466,000 km (290,000 miles), above the Sun’s photosphere (visible surface).…
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