Alain Maury
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Alain J. Maury is a French astronomer.
He discovered the periodic comet 115P/Maury as well as the non-periodic C/1988 C1 (Maury-Phinney).
He has discovered a number of asteroids, including the Apollo asteroid 3838 Epona and the Amor asteroids 11284 Belenus and 5370 Taranis.
He participated in the OCA DLR Asteroid Survey (ODAS), which also discovered some asteroids during its 30-month lifetime.
The asteroid 3780 Maury was named in his honour.
External link
- Homepage (http://www.astrosurf.com/maury/asteroides/whoiam.html)