André Patry
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| 1509 Esclangona | December 21, 1938 | Template:MPC |
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André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /><ref name="springer" />
Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working as a 17-year-old at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. He studied asteroids and discovered several himself. The inner main-belt asteroid 1601 Patry was named in his honor (Template:Small).<ref name="springer" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />