Jérôme Eugène Coggia

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Minor planets discovered: 5 <ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
96 Aegle 17 February 1868 Template:MPC
187 Lamberta 11 April 1878 Template:MPC
193 Ambrosia 28 February 1879 Template:MPC
217 Eudora 30 August 1880 Template:MPC
444 Gyptis 31 March 1899 Template:MPC

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.<ref name="obituary" />

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.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

Coggia was awarded by the French Academy of Sciences its Lalande Prize for 1873<ref name="Prix-Lalande" /> and again for 1916.<ref name="Prix-Lalande-2" /><ref>The Observatory, Vol. 41 (1918), p. 142. (online)</ref>

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