Fernand Rigaux
{{Short description|Belgian astronomer}}
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|+ Minor planets discovered: 8 | ||
| 1292 Luce | 17 September 1933 | {{MPC|1292}} |
| 1378 Leonce | 21 February 1936 | {{MPC|1378}} |
| 1458 Mineura | 1 September 1937 | {{MPC|1458}} |
| 1555 Dejan | 15 September 1941 | {{MPC|1555}} |
| 3280 Gretry | 17 September 1933 | {{MPC|3280}} |
| 4908 Ward | 17 September 1933 | {{MPC|4908}} |
| 7000 Curie | 6 November 1939 | {{MPC|7000}} |
| 19911 Rigaux | 26 March 1933 | {{MPC|19911}} |
Fernand Rigaux (1905 – 21 September 1962) was a Belgian astronomer and observer of variable stars, minor planets and comets at the Royal Observatory at Uccle, Belgium.
In 1951, he co-discovered the periodic comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux with his colleague Sylvain Arend. He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 8 asteroids between 1933 and 1941.
The asteroid 19911 Rigaux, discovered by himself at Uccle in 1933, was named in his memory. Naming citation was published on 25 December 2015 ({{small|M.P.C. 97568}}).
References
{{Reflist
|refs=
|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
|date = 23 May 2016
|accessdate = 2 June 2016}}
|title=Belgian Finds Astral Body
|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0912FD3459157B93CBA9178AD85F428585F9
|accessdate=23 January 2011
|newspaper=The New York Times
|date=9 January 1956
|quote=An astronomer at the Brussels Observatory Fernand Rigaux discovered a fastmoving body in space between Mars and Jupiter the night of 5–6 Jan he announced ...}}
|journal=Proceedings of the Twelfth General Assembly, Hamburg, 1964
|date=1966
|title=Obituaries
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdMhAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Fernand+Rigaux%22
|accessdate=23 January 2011
|page=235
|publisher=International Astronomical Union by Academic Press}}
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 49P/Arend-Rigaux
|url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=49P
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 2 July 2016}}
|title = 19911 Rigaux (1933 FK)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=19911
|accessdate = 2 July 2016}}
|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
|accessdate = 2 July 2016}}
}}
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Category:20th-century Belgian astronomers
Category:Discoverers of asteroids
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