Fernand Baldet

Fernand Baldet ( born March 16, 1885 † November 8, 1964 ) was a French astronomer.

He worked in 1909 with Aymar de La Baume Pluvinel together on the observation of Mars at the newly built observatory on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. Resulting from this work, photographs were so accurate that the two astronomers were able to refute established by Percival Lowell thesis on geometrical designed channels on the Martian surface.

In 1946 he was awarded the Jules Janssen Award. The impact craters on the moon and Baldet Baldet on Mars were named after Fernand Baldet.