“Comet Kohoutek” Luboš Kohoutek Hand Signed FDC Dated 1982 COA for Sale

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“Comet Kohoutek” Luboš Kohoutek Hand Signed FDC Dated 1982 COA For Sale

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“Comet Kohoutek” Luboš Kohoutek Hand Signed FDC Dated 1982 COA:
$90.99

Up for sale “Czech Astronomer” Luboš Kohoutek Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1982 . This item is certified authentic by Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Luboš Kohoutek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkoɦou̯tɛk], born 29 January 1935) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973. Kohoutek was born in 1935 to Hynek and Jarmila Kohoutek. His brother is the Czech composer Ctirad Kohoutek. Kohoutek has been interested in astronomy since high school. He studied physics and astronomy at universities in Brno and Prague (finished 1958). Then he started to work in the Astronomical Institute of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he published a well-cited catalogue (Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae, 1967). Kohoutek obtained a long term position at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg. After the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia (1968) he decided to stay in West Germany (1970). His discoveries in the 1970s made him well-known in the media. In later years Kohoutek worked in observatories in Spain and Chile, working with planetary nebulae. He officially retired in 2001, yet he is still researching at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory. Kohoutek has published 162 sCcientific works. Kohoutek is most famous for his discovery of numerous comets, including periodic omets 75D/Kohoutek and 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura, as well as the famously disappointing "Comet Kohoutek" (C/1973 E1). He has also discovered numerous asteroids, including the Apollo asteroid 1865 Cerberus. The main-belt asteroid 1850 Kohoutek was named after him.