Asteroids named after people called Emmanuel
👶 Emmanuel as a baby name
Named in honor of Emmanuel Lellouch (b. 1963), planetary scientist at Observatoire de Paris. Lellouch works mainly on planetary and satellite atmospheres using infrared and millimeter spectroscopy. He made important contributions to the first observations of Io's global atmosphere, wind measurements in Venus and Mars, and detection of water in outer planets. He also studies planetary surfaces and comets, and has been or is coinvestigator or associate on many spacecraft experiments (Phobos, Galileo, ISO, Cassini, Mars Express, Rosetta, FIRST). Name suggested and citation prepared by M. A. Barucci and M. Fulchignoni.Discovered 23 August 1990 by H. E. Holt, Palomar
Emmanuel Bertin (b. 1973) is the author of the well-known sextractor package, which is used in several observing programs for the automatic detection of minor planets. A specialist in cosmology, he now works for the Terapix consortium at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.Discovered 15 January 1999 by ODAS, Caussols
Emmanuel Jacquet (b. 1986) is a French cosmochemist, and part of the meteorite collection curatorial team at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. He is a specialist on the high-temperature components of chondrites, in particular the chondrules, which he investigates with both cosmochemical and astrophysical (transport modeling) means.Discovered 24 June 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
Emmanuel Jehin (b. 1973) is a Senior Research Associate at the Universite de Liège, Belgium. He is the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST telescopes and his research includes observations and characterization of comets, with a particular focus on production rate determination.Discovered 21 February 2006 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Emmanuel Peterfalvi (b. 1967), known as “Alfons”, is a French-German cabaret artist.Discovered 26 September 2008 by R. Apitzsch, Wildberg
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