Asteroids named after people called Filippo
👶 Filippo as a baby name
Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo (b. 1978) is a researcher at Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS-Rome) whose work includes mineralogical mapping of Vesta and Ceres using Dawn spacecraft data.Discovered 28 February 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
Filippo Portera (b. 1955) is a Sicilian composer of electronic music. He wrote the score for the Mula Portera's opera Empedocle (Agrigento, 2002). In Dec. 2004 he finished Kosmophonè, a suite for flute, saxophone and electronic sound, a tribute to the cosmos of minor planets.Discovered 8 August 1992 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
Filippo Tusberti (b. 1992) is an Italian planetologist at the Astronomical Observatory of Padua. His research focuses on planetary surface geology, lithological analysis, geological mapping, and evolutionary processes. Filippo contributes to international space missions such as DART, LICIACube, OSIRIS-REx, Hera, and LUMIO.Discovered 25 April 1998 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Filippo Frontera (b. 1941) is an Italian astrophysicist and former full professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Ferrara. His research involves X-ray and γ-ray astronomy. During his long career he was awarded the Bruno Rossi, Descartes, Enrico Fermi and Marcel Grossmann prizes.Discovered 10 January 2002 by F. Bernardi, Campo Imperatore
Filippo Juvarra (1678–1736) was an Italian architect of the late-Baroque school. One of Juvarra's masterworks was the basilica church of Superga, built in 1731, which lies on top of a mountain overlooking the city of Turin.Discovered 12 November 2006 by V. S. Casulli, Vallemare Borbona
Filippo Smriglio (b. 1936) is an Italian astronomer and Director of the Astrophysical Station of Campo Imperatore (L'Aquila). He has studied the galactic distribution of relatively-cool stars and the abundance of iron in globular clusters.Discovered 23 February 2012 by R. P. Boyle K. Äernis, Mount Graham
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