Jérôme Eugène Coggia

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**Minor planets discovered: 5**
96 Aegle	February 17, 1868
187 Lamberta	April 11, 1878
193 Ambrosia	February 28, 1879
217 Eudora	August 30, 1880
444 Gyptis	March 31, 1899

Jérôme Eugène Coggia (February 18, 1849 – January 15, 1919) was a 19th-century French (Corsican) astronomer.

Working in Marseille, he discovered a number of comets, including the bright "Coggia's Comet" (C/1874 H1). The periodic comet 27P/Crommelin was previously called "Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes". In 1916 he was awarded the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences.

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