Jérôme Eugène Coggia

Minor planets discovered: 5 
96 Aegle17 February 1868MPC
187 Lamberta11 April 1878MPC
193 Ambrosia28 February 1879MPC
217 Eudora30 August 1880MPC
444 Gyptis31 March 1899MPC

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.

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