Fernand Rigaux

Minor planets discovered: 8 <ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

1292 Luce	17 September 1933	Template:MPC
1378 Leonce	21 February 1936	Template:MPC
1458 Mineura	1 September 1937	Template:MPC
1555 Dejan	15 September 1941	Template:MPC
3280 Gretry	17 September 1933	Template:MPC
4908 Ward	17 September 1933	Template:MPC
7000 Curie	6 November 1939	Template:MPC
19911 Rigaux	26 March 1933	Template:MPC

Fernand Rigaux (1905 – 21 September 1962) was a Belgian astronomer and observer of variable stars, minor planets and comets at the Royal Observatory at Uccle, Belgium.<ref name="Obituaries" /><ref name="MPC-Rigaux" />

In 1951, he co-discovered the periodic comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux with his colleague Sylvain Arend.<ref name="jpldata-49P" /> He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 8 asteroids between 1933 and 1941.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /><ref name="NYtimes" />

The asteroid 19911 Rigaux, discovered by himself at Uccle in 1933, was named in his memory.<ref name="MPC-Rigaux" /> Naming citation was published on 25 December 2015 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

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