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Minor planets discovered: 1 <ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
181 Eucharis 2 February 1878 Template: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.<ref name="Marseilles-Obs" /> 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.<ref name="springer-Eucharis" />

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