Asteroids named after people called Antoine
👶 Antoine as a baby name
Named for the German piano teacher Antoine Schmoll, who at the age of seven received his first piano lessons and tuition in the art of composing. He left his native country to become a piano teacher, first in Toulouse (1864), later in Brussels (1873) and Paris (1875). In 1881 he published his famous Nouvelle méthode de piano, théorique, pratique et récréative (with 16 editions in less than 14 years), in which the difficulty of the lessons increases gradually.Discovered 11 February 1988 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) was a French scientist and important entomologist who developed the thermometer scale bearing his name. Well known for his Cupola furnace used for melting gray iron, he published his masterpiece Mémoires pour servir à l´histoire des insectes during 1734--1742.Discovered 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Named for the French musician Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), composer of operas and church music, best known for his voluminous and inventive choral music that combines Italian influences and French refinement.Discovered 8 May 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Antoine Hautot (1909-1998) was the discoverer's physics professor at the University of Liège. He did seminal work on the study of the photographic process and on the foundations of subatomic physics. The name was suggested by C. Sterken.Discovered 14 January 1988 by H. Debehogne, La Silla
Antoine Baumé (1728–1804) was a chemist at the École de Pharmacie in Paris. Famous for his invention of the scale hydrometer for measuring the density of liquids (subsequently expressed in degrees Baumé), he wrote the three-volume practical work on pharmacy Chimie expérimentale et raisonnée (1773).Discovered 1 March 1998 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Antoine Llebaria (b. 1940) was a research engineer at the Laboratoire Astrophysique de Marseille. An expert in image processing, he led the analysis of the data of many space missions, including France's D2B mission in 1975, the SOHO-LASCO solar coronagraph, the GALEX ultra-violet deep survey, the Rosetta cometary mission, and the CoRoT exoplanetary mission.Discovered 17 December 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
Antoine Cailleau (b. 1981) is a French mechanical technician who is passionate about astronomy. He built his own observatory and led studies on galaxy morphology and supernova photometry.Discovered 8 January 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
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