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From www.comethunter.de

New Discovery!: Kaoru Ikeya (Mori-machi, Shuchi-gun, Shizuoka-ken) and Shigeki Murakami (Tohkamachi, Niigata-ken) have independently discovered a comet visually using 25-cm and 46-cm reflectors, respectively, on Nov. 2, and 3. Comet C/2010 V1 (Ikeya-Murakami) is about 8m and is positioned at small solar elongation in the morning sky. The first and very preliminary orbit shows perihelion already on Oct. 18, 2010, at about 1.7 AU. First follow-up observations show a strongly condensed comet at about magnitude 7-8. The comet will slowly increase its elongation and lose brightness. It may be of short-period and caught in outburst.

This is the 7th visual comet discovery for Ikeya and the 2nd for Murakami.