Living with Comets: Tsuruhiko Kiuchi@Nagano / Summer 1996
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Swift-Tuttle comet and Kiuchi to meet in approximately 1,249,200,000 km.

Sketch.
July 16, 1990 The Tsuchiya-Kiuchi Comet (orbiting once every 4,000 years) is discovered.

"Discovering a comet can be likened to becoming a parent. It is like holding a new baby."