is a Japanese amateur

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, observer of

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s, discoverer of

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C/1970 B1, and co-discoverer of the main-belt asteroid

7752 Otauchunokai __NOTOC__ Year 775 ( DCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 775 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

, named after the ''Ota Uchuno Kai'' group, an amateur astronomers' club at Ōta city, of which he is a member of. The inner main-belt asteroid 26168 Kanaikiyotaka was named after him on 21 September 2002 ().

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20th-century Japanese astronomers 1951 births Living people {{japan-astronomer-stub