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Kaoru Ikeya

1943 - Today

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Kaoru Ikeya (池谷 薫, Ikeya Kaoru; born 1943) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets. As a young adult, Ikeya lived near Lake Hamana and worked for a piano factory. During his employment there, he made his first discovery in 1963 with an optical telescope he built himself within his low budget. Two years later, he discovered the bright comet C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kaoru Ikeya is the 491st most popular astronomer (up from 510th in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,462nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 491 out of 644. Before him are William de Wiveleslie Abney, Edward S. Holden, Walter Frederick Gale, Mary Watson Whitney, Pelageya Shajn, and Cleveland Abbe. After him are Guillermo Haro, Wilhelm Anderson, Luciano Tesi, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, and Forest Ray Moulton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 481. Before him are Steven Millhauser, Helen Quinn, Robert Durst, Domingo Perurena, Milan Damjanović, and John Miles. After him are John Lennox, Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, Marília Pêra, Bobby Vee, Rick Danko, and Jon McBride.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 1,347 out of 6,245. Before him are Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu (1911), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), Shinji Tanaka (1960), Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), and Riichi Yokomitsu (1898). After him are Yoshihiko Matsuoka (1977), Yoshikazu Nagai (1952), Rinko Kikuchi (1981), Atsushi Matsuura (1981), Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886), and Nobuyuki Oishi (1974).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 8. Before him are Tsutomu Seki (1930), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Hiroki Kosai (1933), and Minoru Honda (1913). After him are Okuro Oikawa (1896), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), and Seiji Ueda (1952).

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