André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French
astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s.
Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working as a 17-year-old at the
Nice Observatory in southeastern France. He studied
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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s and discovered several himself. The inner main-belt asteroid
1601 Patry
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*16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17
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Films
* ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film
* ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film dir ...
was named in his honor ().
References
External links
Obituary – JO 43 (1960) 156
1902 births
1960 deaths
Discoverers of asteroids
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20th-century French astronomers
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