Asteroids named after people called Alain
馃懚 Alain as a baby name
Named in honor of Alain Doressoundiram (b. 1968), French planetary scientist. Doressoundiram has worked on the collisional evolution of the population of minor planets, in particular the formation and evolution of binary systems during a family-forming collision. He has contributed to the spectroscopic characterization of a number of minor planet families and helped plan the Rosetta and DS4-Champollion space missions. Name suggested and citation prepared by M. A. Barucci and M. Fulchignoni.Discovered 17 July 1982 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
Alain Klotz, an amateur astronomer at the Centres d'Etudes Spatiales du Rayonnement in Toulouse, is a pioneer in amateur CCD spectroscopy at the T60 telescope at the Pic du Midi Observatory. He is currently president of AUDE, the French electronic detectors users association.Discovered 29 October 1997 by , Ramonville-St-Agne 40704 Buil, C.
Alain Cirou (b. 1958) is editor of Ciel et Espace magazine. He began working for the Association Fran莽aise d麓Astronomie in 1981 and has brought its magazine to its current monthly readership of 70 000. He has also popularized astronomy on radio and television.Discovered 8 January 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
Alain S茅mery (b. 1944) is an engineer at Paris Observatory. He has contributed to the design and development of many instruments aboard spacecraft involved in solar system exploration.Discovered 13 December 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Alain Vienne (b. 1963) is a French professor at Lille University. He is a specialist in the long-term dynamics of small bodies, in particular natural satellites. Alain is also involved in the astrometric observations of small bodies.Discovered 6 February 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
Alain Milsztajn (1955-2007) was a particle physicist and astronomer who worked at the Service de physique des particles of the French Commissariat 脿 l麓茅nergie atomique at Saclay, where he specialized in the structure of the proton and in the search for Galactic dark matter using gravitational lensing.Discovered 19 June 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
Alain Aspect (b. 1947) is a French physicist who performed the first conclusive test of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. He is a member of the French Acad茅mie des sciences , a laureate of the Holweck prize (1991), a gold medalist of the CNRS (1995), an Albert Einstein medalist (2012) and a Niels Bohr medalist (2013).Discovered 2 March 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
Alain Mimoun (1921-2013) was a French long-distance runner, and marathon champion at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.Discovered 2 December 1999 by M. Boeuf, Les Tardieux
Alain Dubes (1935-2016) was a French amateur astronomer. He liked to go and observe the sky at the Pic du Midi observatory where he made us taste his `cannel茅s, a specialty of cakes from the Bordeaux region.Discovered 4 March 2003 by St. Veran, St. Veran
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