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Pablo Cottenot

Pablo Cottenot was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.

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181 Eucharis 2 February 1878 MPC

Pablo Cottenot (born 1800) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.

He worked at Marseille Observatory, but according to Édouard Stephan, Cottenot's astronomy career was brief.2 He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one minor planet, the outer main-belt asteroid 181 Eucharis, which he named for a nymph of the goddess Calypso.3

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  1. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  2. Edouard Stephan. "L'Observatoire de Marseille : histoire depuis la Révolution" (in French). Archived from the original on 2004-07-25.
  3. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(181) Eucharis". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (181) Eucharis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 31. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_182. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.