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Jérôme Eugène Coggia
French astronomer (1849–1919) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
| 96 Aegle | 17 February 1868 | MPC |
| 187 Lamberta | 11 April 1878 | MPC |
| 193 Ambrosia | 28 February 1879 | MPC |
| 217 Eudora | 30 August 1880 | MPC |
| 444 Gyptis | 31 March 1899 | MPC |
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]
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