Name Henri Debehogne | Role Astronomer | |
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Died December 9, 2007, Uccle, Belgium Discovered (11031) 1988 RC5, (19166) 1991 EY1 Similar People Eric Walter Elst, Carolyn S Shoemaker, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Isaac Newton, Francois Gros | ||
Henri Debehogne (30 December 1928 – 9 December 2007) was a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
He was born at Maillen. Debehogne worked at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (French: Observatoire Royal de Belgique) in Uccle, and specialized in astrometry of comets and minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of over 700 numbered minor planets, including the Trojan asteroids (6090) 1989 DJ and 65210 Stichius (the latter with Eric Walter Elst) and hundreds of asteroids of the main-belt.
He died on 9 December 2007, at the age of 78 in Uccle. The asteroid 2359 Debehogne was named in his honor.
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