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| | NewStandard: 4/15/02 |
 | | It had not been seen in 10,000 years and isn't expected again for another 14,000, but on Jan. 30, 1996, a ball of ice and dirt the size of Chicago revealed itself to an amateur astronomer named Yuji Hyakutake and soon to the rest of the world. |
 | | Six years later, Hyakutake, for whom the International Astronomical Union named the bright long-tailed object "Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake," has died, at age 51, last Wednesday in Kokubu near Kagoshima, Japan, of a heart attack brought on by a ruptured artery. |
 | | To escape big-city lights, which impede star-gazing, Hyakutake moved to a mountainside in rural Kagoshima. |
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