Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd

Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd (2015)

Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd (born April 16, 1945 ) is a French astronomer who is valued as an expert on comets in various committees at national, European and global level .

After she was responsible for the Optical Probe Experiment (OPE) as Principal Investigator of the CNRS at Giotto (probe) in 1986 , she is now in the spotlight again through the Rosetta mission .

She was a space candidate for ESA in 1977 .

In 2013 she became an officer of the Legion of Honor .

The asteroid (6170) Levasseur is named after her.

Web links

Commons : Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short portrait (in French) under herre.nisic.free.fr
• Short biography at spacefacts.de

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ your own profile at your current workplace (January 3, 2014), d. H. Spelling Anny Chantal and current list of publications
2. ↑ www.astronaut.ru (Russian, with picture from 1977, accessed January 3, 2014)
3. ↑ Data sheet with picture at www.spacefacts.de (accessed January 3, 2014)
4. ↑ Communication from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (accessed January 3, 2014), or "Par décret du Président de la République en date du 12 June 2013 ... Grande chancellerie de la Légion d'honneur .. Au grade d'officier ... Mme le professeur Levasseur (Anny-Chantal), dite Levasseur-Regourd, professeur d'astronomie et de physique spatiale à l'université Paris-VI. Chevalier du 22 November 2004. " on the website of the Legion of Honor www.legiondhonneur.fr ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. 2012, p. 491