Asteroids named after people called Didier
👶 Didier as a baby name
Didier Tiphene (b. 1957) is deputy director of the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique at Paris Observatory. He specializes in detector development for astronomy space missions.Discovered 20 November 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Didier Lockwood (1956–2018) was a French jazz violinist. One of the most influential jazz violinists of his generation, he was a spiritual heir to Stéphane Grappelli. Didier performed more than 5000 concerts and recorded over 40 albums. He was a composer, educator, and the founder of a leading school dedicated to improvisation and jazz education.Discovered 20 August 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Didier Silly (b. 1950), a long-time colleague and friend of the discoverer, recently started a business building benches for testing optical and laser systems. They have observed together with the T60 at Pic du Midi and spent many weekends machining the mechanical parts of the discoverer's telescope.Discovered 8 August 2005 by B. Christophe, Saint-Sulpice
Didier Müller (b. 1967) is a math and computer science teacher, who has written several books on science popularization.Discovered 18 July 2006 by M. Ory, Vicques
Didier Queloz (b. 1966) is a Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva University. In 1995, with Michel Mayor, he discovered the first extrasolar planet. This planet, 51 Peg b, has an orbital period of 4.2 days and about the mass of Jupiter.Discovered 9 February 2004 by M. Ory, Vicques
Didier Roulet (b. 1948) is a retired physics professor in the Collège de Candolle in Geneva (Switzerland). He was a member of the Commission Romande de Physique for twenty years.Discovered 5 September 2004 by M. Ory, Vicques
Didier Marouani (b. 1953) is a world famous French composer and musician. He is the leader of the band Space, a pioneer of electronic space music. His music is loved by several generations of fans of astronomy and cosmonautics, who feel it inspires them to reach out to the stars.Discovered 23 November 2009 by T. V. Kryachko, Zelenchukskaya Stn
Didier Pelat (b. 1948) is an astronomer at Paris Observatory, who has worked on spectroscopy and modeling of active galactic nuclei, hydrodynamics of accretion disks and stellar populations synthesis. He has also designed an iterative Bracewell interferometer extending the nulling effect to a large bandwidth.Discovered 12 March 2007 by B. Christophe, Saint-Sulpice
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