Miguel Itzigsohn Explained

Minor planets discovered: 15 

	3 August 1948
	20 March 1950
	15 June 1950
	15 June 1950
	27 June 1951
	13 September 1950
	8 March 1951
	1 September 1951
	23 August 1951
	3 March 1951
	15 June 1950
	12 September 1950
	23 September 1952
	24 June 1950
	12 March 1954

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 .

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.^[1]

External links

• Lista de cientificos (in Spanish)

Notes and References

1. G. Sitarski, "20. Positions and motions of minor planets" Trans. IAU, 18, 195 (1982).