Léo Houziaux

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List of discovered asteroids : 3
(4782) Gembloux October 14, 1980 [1]
(6946) 1980 RX 1 September 15, 1980 [1]
(10271) 1980 TV 2 October 14, 1980 [1]

Léo Houziaux (born March 23, 1932 in Rochefort ) is a Belgian astronomer .

He is the founder of the Faculty of Astrophysics at the University of Mons and worked at the University of Liège .

In 1980 he discovered a total of three asteroids , all together with Henri Debehogne . In 2017 an asteroid was named after him: (24945) Houziaux .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers