Jérôme Eugène Coggia Explained

**Minor planets discovered: 5 **
	17 February 1868
	11 April 1878
	28 February 1879
	30 August 1880
	31 March 1899

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.^[1]

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)^[2]

External links

Notes and References

The Observatory, Vol. 41 (1918), p. 142. (online)
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