Henry L. Giclas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHenry L. Giclas
American astronomer
Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1910
Place of Birth: Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Date of Death: 02-Apr-2007
Profession: astronomer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Henry L. Giclas
- Henry Lee Giclas (December 9, 1910 – April 2, 2007) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham Jr.
- to work there.
- He also worked on a notable proper motion survey with several relatively nearby stars bearing his name such as Giclas 99-49. Henry Giclas is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 17 numbered minor planets between 1943 and 1978, including 2201 Oljato – tentatively identified as the parent body of the "Chi Orionids" meteor shower – and 2061 Anza, two near-Earth asteroids of the Apollo and Amor group, respectively.He also discovered 84P/Giclas in 1978, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family.Henry Giclas died of a stroke at the age of 96 in Flagstaff, Arizona.
- The crater Giclas on Pluto, as well as the asteroid 1741 Giclas, discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program in 1960, are named for him.
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