Josep Comas i Solà
Josep Comas i Solà (Catalan) (born December 19, 1868 in Barcelona , Catalonia , † December 2, 1937 ibid) was a Catalan astronomer . He was the first president of the Sociedad Astrónomica de España y América, founded in 1911 .
Comas y Solá devoted himself to the intensive study of the planets Mars and Saturn and determined the period of rotation of the latter. As early as 1908 he deduced from observations of the Saturn moon Titan with the telescope that it must be surrounded by an atmosphere .
The astronomer wrote a number of popular books during his career. During his work he also discovered eleven asteroids and the periodic comet 32P / Comas Solá and was co-discoverer of the non-periodic comet C / 1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solá).
The asteroids (1102) Pepita (after his nickname Pepito) and (1655) Comas Solá are dedicated to him. Comas was a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona .
Web links
- Life and work of José Comas y Solá (Spanish)
- Publications by JC Sola in the Astrophysics Data System
- L. van Aerschodt: José-Comas Solà (1868-1937). Ciel et Terre, Vol. 54 (1938), p. 146. (Obituary, French)
- GCF: José Comas Solá. L'Astronomie, vol. 52 (1938), pp. 127-128. (Obituary, French)
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| SURNAME | Comas i Solà, Josep |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Comas y Solá, José (Spanish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1937 |
| Place of death | Barcelona , Spain |