Odette Bancilhon

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Odette Bancilhon (born September 22, 1908 , † 1998 ) was a French astronomer .

Life

Bancilhon was best known for the discovery of (1333) Cevenola , an asteroid in the main belt . She discovered him on February 20, 1934 at the Center de recherche en astronomie, astrophysique et géophysique in Algiers , where she did research in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950 she moved to the Observatoire de Strasbourg . Later she accompanied her husband Alfred Schmitt to the observatory in Quito , the capital of Ecuador . In 1964 she retired. After the marriage she called herself Odette Schmitt-Bancilhon.

Honors

The asteroid (1713) Bancilhon , discovered by the French astronomer Louis Boyer in Algiers on September 27, 1951 , was named in her honor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andre Heck: The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory , ISBN 978-1-4020-3644-6 , page 289, limited preview in Google book search
  2. ↑ 1333 Cevenola (1934 DA) . In: Minor Planet Center . Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  3. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - (1713) Bancilhon . Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3 , p. 136 (accessed on November 29, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Bancilhon, Odette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt-Bancilhon, Odette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1908
DATE OF DEATH 1998