Michel Ory | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation(s) | amateur astronomer, teacher of physics at the cantonal school Porrentruy |
Known for | discovering minor planets and the periodic comet 304P/Ory |
Michel Ory (born 18 April 1966) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. [1]
Ory was born in Develier, in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. [2] He attended school in Delémont, and at the cantonal school in Porrentruy, [3] then studied at the University of Geneva, graduating in physics in 1990. [2] He trained as a scientific journalist at Cedos SA in Carouge, qualifying in 1992, then undertook teacher training at the Institut pédagogique in Porrentruy, qualifying as a secondary school teacher in 1994, then becoming a physics teacher at the cantonal school in Porrentruy, [2] a position which he continues to hold in 2012. [4] Ory is married and has two children. [2]
A keen amateur astronomer, he joined the Jura Astronomical Society in 1990 and between 1993 and 1998 he was one of the seven member-builders of the Jura Astronomical Observatory. [2]
He was one of five winners of the 2009 Edgar Wilson Award [5] for his discovery on 27 August 2008 of 304P/Ory (P/2008 Q2 Ory), a periodic comet of the Jupiter family, [6] using a 24-inch f/3.9 reflector [7] at the Jura Observatory in Switzerland. [2]
In 2018, he was awarded a Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant which will improve the robotic survey he conducts in collaboration with Claudine Rinner at the Oukaïmeden Observatory ( J43) in Morocco. [8] He is a teacher of physics at the cantonal school in Porrentruy, Switzerland. [2] The main-belt asteroid 67979 Michelory was named in his honor. [9]
In 2020, he and Claudine Rinner jointly received the Dorothea Klumpke - Isaac Roberts prize from the Société astronomique de France. [10]
see § List of discovered minor planets |
During 2000–2010, Michel Ory has made a large number of discoveries of different astronomical objects at several observatory sites. [2] As per 2016, he is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 199 numbered minor planets he made during 2001–2010. [1]
At the Jura Observatory, located in Vicques, Switzerland, he made his most famous discovery, 304P/Ory, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family, [11] and also discovered over 234 asteroids (including unnumbered bodies) and two supernovae. [2] Ory also made discoveries at two other observatory sites in the U.S., namely at Tenagra II Observatory ( 926), Arizona, and at Sierra Stars Observatory ( G68), California, from where he discovered another 11 and 2 asteroids, respectively. [2]
It was on the nights of 26–27 and 27–28 August 2008 that Ory discovered what he thought was a near-Earth asteroid, [12] which he reported to the Minor Planet Center, Harvard. [2] At around 8:08 p.m. on 28 August he received notification from the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) that the object was in fact a periodic comet: the announcement ran, "An apparently asteroidal object discovered by Michel Ory (Delemont, Switzerland, on CCD images obtained with a 0.61-m f/3.9 reflector at Vicques; discovery observation tabulated below), which was posted on the Minor Planet Center's 'NEOCP' webpage, has been found by other CCD observers to be cometary." [12]
The comet was named 304P/Ory (P/2008 Q2 Ory) after him, and the CBAT announcement brought congratulations from around the world. [2] The comet orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit with a period of 5.96 years. [13]
Ory received the Edgar Wilson Award from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University, [6] and later in 2008 a square in Viques was named Place de la Comète P/2008 Q2 Ory in honour of his discovery. [14]
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