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...cosmic spectacle of a somewhat unpredictable nature will take place to-night when Comet Ikeya-Seki grazes by the surface of the sun at a million miles an hour...
Comets are named for their discoverers, and this one is comet Ikeya-Seki, found by two Japanese amateur astronomers. Such "comet hunters," attempting to immortalize themselves, find one comet in about 200 hours of searching...
...Kaoru Ikeya, 19, of Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, was chronically broke. A $28-a-month lathe operator, he gave $25 of each pay check to his widowed mother. But a little thing like lack of money never kept Kaoru from his normally expensive hobby-amateur astronomy. Somehow he accumulated the cash for parts and materials, and all by himself he built an ambitious telescope...
...declared it a new comet, named it after its discoverer and informed European astronomical authorities. Word went out to the Harvard College Observatory, Western Hemisphere clearinghouse for astronomical information, which also found the new comet and published its position. Soon telescopes in both hemispheres were combing Hydra for Comet Ikeya...