Fernand Rigaux

Asteroids discovered: 8

1292 Luce	17 September 1933
1378 Leonce	21 February 1936
1458 Mineura	1 September 1937
1555 Dejan	15 September 1941
3280 Gretry	17 September 1933
4908 Ward	17 September 1933
7000 Curie	6 November 1939
19911 Rigaux	26 March 1933

Fernand Rigaux (1905–1962) was a Belgian astronomer who observed at the Royal Observatory at Uccle, Belgium. In 1951, he co-discovered the periodic comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux with his colleague Sylvain Arend. He also discovered several asteroids.^[1][2]

References

1. "Belgian Finds Astral Body". New York Times. 9 January 1956. Retrieved 23 January 2011. An astronomer at the Brussels Observatory Fernand Rigaux discovered a fastmoving body in space between Mars and Jupiter the night of Jan 5-6 he announced ...
2. "Obituaries". Proceedings of the Twelfth General Assembly, Hamburg, 1964 (Published for the International Astronomical Union by Academic Press): 235. 1966. Retrieved 23 January 2011.