Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin

Who was Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin?

Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin was a French astronomer. Some sources give his middle name as Athanase.

In his early career, he and Guillaume Bigourdan were assistants of Félix Tisserand at Toulouse Observatory. Later, he was the directory of the Nice Observatory in Nice, France from 1884 until his death. He made observations of Mars and attempted to determine the rotation period of Venus. He also calculated perturbations in the orbit of 4 Vesta.

In the literature, he is sometimes referred to as Henri Perrotin and sometimes as Joseph Perrotin. His asteroid discoveries are credited by the Minor Planet Center to "J. Perrotin".

Perrotin crater on Mars has been named in his honor, as has asteroid 1515 Perrotin.