Yuji Hyakutake
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Template:Nihongo was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996, while using 25×150 binoculars.
Hyakutake graduated from the Kyushu Sangyo University as a photography major and started working at a newspaper in Fukuoka.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> He first became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya–Seki in 1965.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref> He began searching for comets in 1989. In 1993, he moved to Hayato for because “the skies were much clearer there” and so he could better continue his search for comets.<ref name=":0" /> His first discovery was Comet C/1995 Y1, on December 26, 1995.<ref>Burnham, Robert. Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet, pages 51-52, Cambridge University Press, Jan 28, 1997, Template:ISBN</ref>
Hyakutake discovered C/1996 B2 while looking for C/1995 Y1, a comet he had discovered a few weeks before.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
He died in Kokubu, Kagoshima, in 2002 at age 51 of an aneurysm which had led to internal bleeding.<ref name=":1" />
Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake is named after him.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>