Asteroids named after people called Claudio
馃懚 Claudio as a baby name
Claudio Anguita (1930-2000), an astrometrist at the Universidad de Chile, was critically helpful during the establishment of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, forging links between AURA and the Universidad de Chile. He was an IAU Vice President during 1994-2000. The name was suggested by F. Vilas.Discovered 3 March 1987 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
Claudio Maccone (b. 1948), an Italian scientific researcher and technical expert at the Alenia Spazio in Turin, has participated in the design of some scientific space missions and submitted a proposal for a space mission to exploit the radio magnification provided by the gravitational lens of the sun.Discovered 16 October 1979 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
Amateur astronomer Claudio Cremaschini (b. 1984) is an assiduous observer in Brescia of minor planets, comets, variable stars and occultations both by the moon and minor planets. The name was suggested by S. Foglia.Discovered 14 February 1996 by Tombelli, M., Munari, U., Cima Ekar
Claudio Francini (b. 1926) is an amateur astronomer passionately fond of imaging the sky and a collaborator at the San Marcello Observatory.Discovered 8 October 1999 by Tesi, L., Forti, G., San Marcello
Claudio Elidoro (b. 1956), a graduate in astronomy from Bologna University, is active in the popularization of science. He has written many articles for Italian astronomical magazines about the minor bodies of the solar system.Discovered 7 February 1997 by Sicoli, P., Manca, F., Sormano
Since 1980 Claudio Bottari (b. 1960) has been interested in the technical aspects of amateur astronomy and in 1991 was among the first to use CCDs in the Italian amateur community. At the Mira observatory he uses a 0.6-m concentric Schmidt-Cassegrain in search of SNe and NEOs. He discovered SN 1996ai in NGC 5005.Discovered 7 August 2001 by Tesi, L., Tombelli, M., San Marcello
Claudio Lopresti is an Italian amateur astronomer. Founder of the Digital Astronomy Group and discoverer of numerous variable stars, in 2007 he discovered the first transit of an extrasolar planet, in the constellation of Cassiopeia.Discovered 15 February 2009 by Tesi, L., Fagioli, G., San Marcello
Claudio Costa (b. 1955) is an Italian amateur astronomer and technical expert at the Vatican Observatory. He observes stellar occultations and leads groups for observations at the Carte du Ciel telescope. His wife Carla Francini (b. 1962) holds a master鈥檚 degree in mathematics and has worked with the Vilnius photometric system together with F. Smriglio.Discovered 18 April 2012 by R. P. Boyle K. 脛聦ernis, Mount Graham
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