Josep Comas i SolÃ
Josep Comas i Solà ( Catalan) ( born December 19, 1868 in Barcelona, Catalonia, † December 2, 1937, just there) was a Catalan astronomer. He was the first president of the Sociedad Astronomica founded in 1911 de España y América.
Comas y Solá devoted to the intensive study of the planet Mars and Saturn and determined the rotation period of the latter. In 1908 he led from observations of Saturn's moon Titan from the telescope, that this must be surrounded by an atmosphere.
The astronomer written in his career, a number of popular books. During his work, he also discovered eleven asteroids and the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solá and was co-discoverer of comet C/1925 F1 non-periodic ( Shajn - Comas Solá ).
He even dedicated the asteroid (1102 ) Pepita (after his nickname Pepito ) and ( 1655) Comas Solá.