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Vainu Bappu
Indian astronomer
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (10 August 19 August ) was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union.
Bappu helped to establish several astronomical institutions in India, including the Vainu Bappu Observatory which is named after him, and he also contributed to the establishment of the modern Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
In , he discovered the Wilson–Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson.
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On 2 July , when Bappu was taking pictures of the night sky, he spotted a bright moving object which he had rightfully understood to be a comet. When he turned to his professor, Bart Bok, and colleague Gordon Newkirk, they confirmed the discovery.
They calculated the orbit of the comet which revealed that the comet would reappear only after 60, years.
The International Astronomical Union officially named the comet as the Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet (C/N1). Bappu also received the Donohoe Comet Me