Asteroids named after people called Cesare

(8935) Beccaria

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) was an Italian Enlightenment thinker. In his most important work, Dei delitti e delle pene, Beccaria took sides against the death penalty, supporting the educational function of punishment.Discovered 11 January 1997 by Sicoli, P., Cavagna, M., Sormano

(13992) Cesarebarbieri

Padua astronomer Cesare Barbieri (b. 1942) is responsible for the construction and scientific calibration of the Wide Angle Camera for the OSIRIS system of the cometary mission ROSETTA.Discovered 17 March 1993 by UESAC, La Silla

(17891) Buraliforti

Cesare Burali-Forti (1861-1931) taught at the Military Academy in Turin. He discovered a paradox in Cantor's set theory: since the ordinal number of a set of ordinals is greater than the ordinal of each set element, “the ordinal of the set of all ordinals” is a self-contradictory concept.Discovered 6 March 1999 by P. G. Comba, Prescott

(57879) Cesarechiosi

Cesare Chiosi (b. 1941) is a professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Padua. His fields of interest include stellar structure and evolution, chemical evolution of the interstellar medium and the formation and evolution of galaxies.Discovered 2 January 2002 by Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey, Cima Ekar

(70210) Cesarelombardi

Cesare Lombardi (1900-1971) was a volunteer assistant at the Brera Astronomical Observatory in Milan from 1930, where he devoted himself to the observation and calculation of orbits of minor planets. From 1930 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1971 he was director of the Hoepli planetarium in Milan.Discovered 11 September 1999 by Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna