Jérôme_Eugène_Coggia

Jérôme Eugène Coggia

Jérôme Eugène Coggia

French astronomer

Jérôme Eugène Coggia (18 February 1849 – 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets, who was born in the Corsican town of Ajaccio.[2]

Minor planets discovered: 5 [1]
96 Aegle17 February 1868MPC
187 Lamberta11 April 1878MPC
193 Ambrosia28 February 1879MPC
217 Eudora30 August 1880MPC
444 Gyptis31 March 1899MPC

Working at the Marseille Observatory from 1866 to 1917, Coggia discovered a number of comets, including the bright "Coggia's Comet" (C/1874 H1). The periodic comet 27P/Crommelin was previously called "Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes". He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 5 asteroids at Marseille between 1868 and 1899.[1]

Coggia was awarded by the French Academy of Sciences its Lalande Prize for 1873[3] and again for 1916.[4][5]

Comets discovered or co-discovered

References

  1. [1]
    "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. [2]
    Rocurt, D. (1919). "Nécrologie – brief obituary notice for J.E. Coggia, in French". L'Astronomie (in French). 33: 92. Bibcode:1919LAstr..33...92R.
  3. [3]
    "LES LAURÉATS DU PRIX LALANDE". La Revue scientifique. TOME 40. Paris: 460–463. 1887.
  4. [4]
    "The Lalande Prize". Popular Astronomy. 25: 215. 1917.
  5. [5]
    The Observatory, Vol. 41 (1918), p. 142. (online)
  6. [6]
    Kronk, Gary W. (2003). "Comet Designation Index, years 1855–1892". Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. Vol. 2: 1800–1899. p. 836. ISBN 0521585058.
  7. [7]
    Award of the DONOHOE Comet-Medal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 2, no. 11, p. 292, 1890 The Donohoe Comet Medal was awarded to Coggia for his July 18, 1890 discovery.


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