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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicolas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Roquemaure
- Place of death
- France
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Employer
- Marseille Observatory
- Languages spoken
- French
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- date of birth
- 1842-12-08
- date of death
- 1926-02-28
- name in native language
- Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
- birth name
- Louis Alphonse Nicolas Bourrelly
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Encyclopedic overview
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (December 8, 1842 – February 28, 1926) was a French astronomer born in Roquemaure, Gard.
He joined the Marseille Observatory in 1864. In the course of his career, he discovered a number of asteroids and comets, including the periodic comet 19P/Borrelly. He also discovered five NGC objects, all galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alphonse Borrelly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.