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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kaoru Ikeya has received more than 29,245 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kaoru Ikeya is the 510th most popular astronomer (down from 478th in 2019), the 1,462nd most popular biography from Japan and the 10th most popular Japanese Astronomer.

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  • 52.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 510 out of 644. Before him are Julie Vinter Hansen, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, Bohdan Paczyński, Jane Luu, Ernest Esclangon, and DeLisle Stewart. After him are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Edwin Foster Coddington, Wilhelm Anderson, John Dobson, John Broughton, and Hans-Emil Schuster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 569. Before him are Pedro Pablo León, Richard Eyre, Mirsad Fazlagić, Daniel Robin, Gavin Bryars, and Morten Lauridsen. After him are Toni Basil, Mariann Fischer Boel, Stephen Greenblatt, Silvia Cartwright, Tommy Gemmell, and Ben Cardin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 1,462 out of 6,245. Before him are Mitsuru Komaeda (1950), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Tomio Okamura (1972), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), Hiroaki Hirata (1963), and Kaoru Kakinami (1966). After him are Wataru Takagi (1966), Tomokazu Seki (1972), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Inio Asano (1980), Junko Ishida (1966), and Yoko Shimomura (1967).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Japan

Among astronomers born in Japan, Kaoru Ikeya ranks 10. Before him are Tsutomu Seki (1930), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Hiroki Kosai (1933), Yuji Hyakutake (1950), Takao Kobayashi (1961), and Hisashi Kimura (1870). After him are Minoru Honda (1913), Okuro Oikawa (1896), Kiichirō Furukawa (1929), Seiji Ueda (1952), Kazuro Watanabe (1955), and Kin Endate (1960).

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