Kaoru Ikeya
Japanese amateur astronomer
Kaoru Ikeya 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1943 (age 80 years)
Discovered: Comet Ikeya–Seki, 153P/Ikeya–Zhang, 332P/Ikeya–Murakami, and more