Lubos Kohoutek
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Luboš Kohoutek (born January 29 1935) is a Czech astronomer. Emigrated to Germany in 1970.
He discovered numerous comets, including periodic comets 75P/Kohoutek and 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura, as well as the famously disappointing non-periodic "Comet Kohoutek" (C/1973 E1).
He also discovered numerous asteroids, including the Apollo asteroid 1865 Cerberus.
The asteroid 1850 Kohoutek was named in his honour.