Jérôme Eugène Coggia

Minor planets discovered: 5
96 Aegle 17 February 1868
187 Lamberta 11 April 1878
193 Ambrosia 28 February 1879
217 Eudora 30 August 1880
444 Gyptis 31 March 1899

Jérôme Eugène Coggia (18 February 1849 – 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French (Corsican) astronomer.

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 was awarded by the French Academy of Sciences its Lalande Prize for 1873[1] and again for 1916.[2][3]

Comets discovered or co-discovered

References

  1. ↑ "LES LAURÉATS DU PRIX LALANDE". La Revue scientifique (Paris). TOME 40: 460–463. 1887.
  2. ↑ "The Lalande Prize". Popular Astronomy 25: 215. 1917.
  3. ↑ The Observatory, Vol. 41 (1918), p. 142. (online)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Kronk, Gary W. (2003). "Comet Designation Index, years 1855–1892". Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. vol. 2: 1800–1899. p. 836. ISBN 0521585058.
  5. ↑ 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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