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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Lyon
- Place of death
- Saint-Jean-en-Royans
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Lalande Prize
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- date of birth
- 1823-06-21
- date of death
- 1873-09-06
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok
- name in native language
- Jean Chacornac
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 6 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids.
He was born in Lyon and died in Saint-Jean-en-Royans, southeastern France. Working in Marseille and Paris, he discovered six asteroids in the asteroid belt (see table) and C/1852 K1 (Chacornac), a parabolic comet in 1852. This comet is thought to be the source of the current Eta Eridanids meteors. He also independently discovered 20 Massalia, which discovery is credited to the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis, however.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Chacornac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.