Jérôme Eugène Coggia

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96 Aegle	17 February 1868	{{MPC\|96}}
187 Lamberta	11 April 1878	{{MPC\|187}}
193 Ambrosia	28 February 1879	{{MPC\|193}}
217 Eudora	30 August 1880	{{MPC\|217}}
444 Gyptis	31 March 1899	{{MPC\|444}}

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.

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.

Coggia was awarded by the French Academy of Sciences its Lalande Prize for 1873 and again for 1916.The Observatory, Vol. 41 (1918), p. 142. ([http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1918Obs....41..141./0000142.000.html online])

Comets discovered or co-discovered

C/1870 Q1 (Coggia)
27P/Crommelin
C/1874 H1 (Coggia)
C/1874 Q1 (Coggia)
C/1877 R1 (Coggia)
C/1890 O1 (Coggia)[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1890PASP....2..315H 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.

References

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{{cite journal

|title = Nécrologie – brief obituary notice for J.E. Coggia, in French

|last = Rocurt| first = D.

|journal = L'Astronomie

|page = 92

|volume = 33

|date = 1919

|bibcode = 1919LAstr..33...92R

|language = French

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{{cite web

|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html

|date = 20 June 2016

|accessdate = 6 August 2016}}

{{cite journal

|title=LES LAURÉATS DU PRIX LALANDE

|journal=La Revue scientifique

|volume=TOME 40

|date=1887

|location=Paris

|pages=460–463

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=biIgAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA460}}

{{cite journal

|title=The Lalande Prize

|page=215

|journal=Popular Astronomy

|volume=25

|date=1917

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4MAzAQAAIAAJ&pg=215}}

{{cite book

|author=Kronk, Gary W.

|title=Cometography: A Catalog of Comets

|volume=2: 1800–1899

|chapter=Comet Designation Index, years 1855–1892

|page=836

|date=2003

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XXjVF8fuGkC&pg=PA836

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External links

[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&author=coggia,%20j.&aut_syn=NO J. Coggia] @ Astrophysics Data System
[http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/ngcic/persons/coggia.htm Jerome Eugene Coggia, Astronomie-Homepage von Wolfgang Steinicke]

Category:1849 births

Category:1919 deaths

Category:20th-century French astronomers

Category:19th-century French astronomers

Category:Discoverers of asteroids

Category:Discoverers of comets

Category:People from Ajaccio

Category:Recipients of the Lalande Prize