Miguel Itzigsohn

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1569 Evita	3 August 1948	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1569\|list}}}}
1571 Cesco	20 March 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1571\|list}}}}
1581 Abanderada	15 June 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1581\|list}}}}
1582 Martir	15 June 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1582\|list}}}}
1588 Descamisada	27 June 1951	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1588\|list}}}}
1589 Fanatica	13 September 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1589\|list}}}}
1596 Itzigsohn	8 March 1951	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1596\|list}}}}
1608 Muñoz	1 September 1951	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1608\|list}}}}
1684 Iguassú	23 August 1951	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1684\|list}}}}
1688 Wilkens	3 March 1951	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1688\|list}}}}
1779 Paraná	15 June 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1779\|list}}}}
1800 Aguilar	12 September 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1800\|list}}}}
1801 Titicaca	23 September 1952	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1801\|list}}}}
1821 Aconcagua	24 June 1950	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1821\|list}}}}
1970 Sumeria	12 March 1954	{{small\|{{LoMP\|1970\|list}}}}

Miguel Itzigsohn (1908–1978) was an Argentine astronomer and observer of comets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 asteroids between 1948 and 1954. The outer main-belt asteroid 1596 Itzigsohn, which he discovered himself, was named in his memory on 1 August 1980 ({{small|M.P.C. 5449}}).

Itzigsohn was a professor of spherical and practical astronomy. From 1955 to 1972, he was director of the extrameridian astronomy department at the La Plata Astronomical Observatory, specializing in astrometry and celestial mechanics. He was responsible for the surge in observational and computational activity in studies of minor planets in Argentina following World War II. G. Sitarski, "20. Positions and motions of minor planets" Trans. IAU, 18, 195 (1982).

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{{cite web

|url = http://www.icuf.org.ar/200-personalidades-judeo-argentinas/

|title = 200 personalidades judeo-argentinas – #179 Miguel Itzigsohn

|trans-title = 200 Jewish-Argentinian personalities

|author = Federación de Entidades Culturales Judías de Argentina

|language = Spanish

|accessdate = 28 December 2016

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161202170000/http://www.icuf.org.ar/200-personalidades-judeo-argentinas/

|archivedate = 2 December 2016

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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 = 23 May 2016

|accessdate = 20 June 2016}}

{{cite book

|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1596) Itzigsohn

|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.

|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg

|page = 126

|date = 2007

|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3

|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1597 |chapter = (1596) Itzigsohn }}

{{cite web

|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html

|accessdate = 20 June 2016}}

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External links

[http://www.oni.escuelas.edu.ar/olimpi98/ConociendoNuestraCiencia/lista%20de%20cientificos.html#Itzigsohn Lista de cientificos] (in Spanish)

Category:20th-century Argentine astronomers

Category:Argentine Jews

Category:Discoverers of asteroids

Category:Place of birth missing

Category:1908 births

Category:1978 deaths