Henri Debehogne

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Henri Debehogne (30 December 1928 – 9 December 2007) was a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.<ref name="obituary" /><ref name="springer" />

Biography

He was born at Maillen. Debehogne worked at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (Template:Langx) in Uccle, and specialized in astrometry of comets and minor planets.<ref name="springer" />

He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of over 700 numbered minor planets,<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> including the Trojan asteroids 6090 Aulis 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.<ref name="springer" />

List of discovered minor planets

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