Michel Giacobini

Michel Giacobini (1873 – 1938) was a French astronomer.

He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (parent body of the Giacobinids meteor shower), 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini. The latter he had discovered at Nice on September 4, 1896, but it was not seen on its return, a little less than 7 years later, and was considered a lost comet and consequently designated D/1896 R2. On September 10, 2008, amateur supernova hunters Koichi Itagaki and Hiroshi Kaneda rediscovered it, on its seventeenth return.

He won the Lalande Prize in 1900 and worked at the Nice Observatory until 1910, when he requested a transfer to the Paris Observatory. He volunteered for military service in World War I and suffered the effects of poison gas. He recovered and resumed his astronomical activities after the war.

External links

• Nice Observatory brief biography (French)

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Name	Giacobini, Michel
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Date of birth	1873
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Date of death	1938
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