Yuji Hyakutake
Male, Deceased Person
1950 – 2002
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Who was Yuji Hyakutake?
Yuji Hyakutake was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars.
His only other discovery was comet C/1995 Y1. The media has stated that Hyakutake became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki in 1965.
He died in 2002, at age 51, of an aneurysm.
Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake is named after him.
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