Paul Henry and Prosper Henry


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Paul-Pierre Henry and his brother Prosper-Mathieu Henry were French opticians and astronomers.
They made refracting telescopes and instruments for observatories, and were involved in the origin of the Carte du Ciel project.
Between the two of them, they discovered a total of 14 asteroids. The Minor Planet Center credits their discoveries under "P. P. Henry" and "P. M. Henry", respectively. The lunar crater Henry Frères and the Martian crater Henry are named after them. They were jointly awarded the first Valz Prize in 1877 for their sky charts designed to facilitate the search for minor planets.

List of discovered minor planets

126 Velleda5 November 1872
141 Lumen13 January 1875
152 Atala2 November 1875
159 Aemilia26 January 1876
164 Eva12 July 1876
177 Irma5 November 1877
227 Philosophia12 August 1882

Obituaries

Paul Henry