Ikeya-Seki

This is Murakami's second comet discovery but Ikeya has found six others over a span of almost five decades – his most famous one being the sungrazing Comet Ikeya-Seki, the Great Comet of 1965, and surely one of the brightest comets of the last millennium.

Starwatch: Comets Hartley 2 and Ikeya-Murakami Alan Pickup 2010

Two scoutships, Encke and Ikeya-Seki, did not count as fighting units; they carried one energy gun apiece, possibly useful against aircraft, and their sole real value lay in speed and maneuverability.

Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966