François Dossin

**List of discovered asteroids : 5**
(3198) Wallonia	December 30, 1981
(3435) Boury	2nd December 1981
(4440) Tchantchès	23rd December 1984
(6950) Simonek	22nd December 1982
(39501) 1981 EV ₃₁	March 2, 1981

François Dossin (* 1927 , † 1998 ) was a Belgian astronomer and asteroid discoverer.

Between 1981 and 1984 he discovered a total of four asteroids at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence in south-east France , a fifth at the Siding Spring Observatory , a sixth, discovered on December 21, 1982 in France from the group of the near-Earth Cupid type, who at the same time also crosses Jupiter's orbit, is not yet numbered, but has already been confirmed several times and bears the provisional designation 1982 YA.

In 1973 he and his colleague André Heck announced the discovery of an object close to the Sun, which was named Dossin-Heck , while observing the total solar eclipse in Loyangalani in Kenya on August 9, 1973 . Since the phenomenon could never be confirmed later by other observations, an instrument error is now assumed as the most likely cause.

Individual evidence

↑ J. Manfroid: Il ya 40 ans, une comète liégeoise . bibcode : 2012Ciel ... 74..384M ( aheck.org [PDF]).
^ Minor Planet Discoverers
↑ New Scientist The supernova that never existed [1] (Engl.)

personal data
SURNAME	Dossin, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian astronomer and asteroid explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	1927
DATE OF DEATH	1998

[1] J. Manfroid: Il ya 40 ans, une comète liégeoise . bibcode : 2012Ciel ... 74..384M ( aheck.org [PDF]).

[2] Minor Planet Discoverers

[3] New Scientist The supernova that never existed [1] (Engl.)