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...hard fan dressed like Jackson in his "Billie Jean" video even entered the store and flipped through the albums. Tower's clerks said they had been fielding calls all morning asking about Jackson's albums in stock, and expected more as the news spread. Masayuki Ikeya, 30, says he first saw and heard Michael Jackson when his parents showed him a videotape of Moonwalker. "I was really young and when I saw him, I knew he wasn't Japanese," he says. "But by the way he danced, I didn't think he was human - he was unbelievable...
Such discoveries are not unusual; as many as a dozen new comets are found each year, often by diligent amateur stargazers like Kaoru Ikeya, a worker in a Japanese piano factory. Ikeya has been finding new comets at the rate of about one a year since he and another Japanese amateur, Tsutomo Seki, independently discovered the major Ikeya-Seki comet in 1965. Kohoutek, too, had previously discovered a comet in 1969. But it was the second of his 1973 discoveries -officially called Comet Kohoutek 1973f (the ∫ indicating that it was the sixth new comet sighted this year)-that quickly...
...observatory, scientists at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., announced the existence of the new comet. It was the 14th discovered during 1967, one more than the previous yearly record of 13. In honor of the discoverers, the Smithsonian named it Ikeya-Seki 1967n (the 14th letter in the alphabet). The new Ikeya-Seki, the Smithsonian reported, had a brightness of only the ninth magnitude and would gradually fade away without becoming visible to the naked...
...About Craters. The celestial find brought new honors to Ikeya, 24, and Seki, 37, each of whom has now discovered five comets that are wholly or partially named after him. Ikeya became obsessed with astronomy in junior high school, where he had an opportunity to peer through a small telescope one night and saw the craters of the moon and the rings of Saturn. "I was so excited," he recalls, "that I couldn't sleep nights and would stay outdoors staring at the stars. My mother was convinced that I had gone mad and talked of taking...
After graduation from high school in 1959, Ikeya got a job at a piano factory, where he is now a key polisher and earns $72.22 per month-enough to leave $6 per month for astronomy expenses after he contributes to the support of his mother and five brothers and sisters. Constructing his own 6-and 8-in. telescopes, Ikeya began scanning the sky in 1962 and discovered his first comet the following year...