Asteroids named after people called Florence
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(6084) Bascom
Named in memory of Florence Bascom (1862-1945), the first woman geologist in the United States. She was an expert in crystallography, mineralogy and petrography and worked in the fields of metamorphism and crystallography in their infancy. Bascom was also an educator who trained a generation of young women as professionals at Bryn Mawr, where she founded the geology department. She was the first woman hired by the U.S. Geological Survey and the first woman elected to the Council of the Geological Society of America. Her pioneering work earned her a position among the country's hundred leading geologists in the early twentieth century.Discovered 12 February 1985 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M., Palomar
(6645) Arcetri
Named for the Florence Observatory, moved in 1872 from the center of the city to Arcetri, near the house in which Galileo died. The original observatory, La Specola, was also associated with Galileo, and nineteenth-century directors included the comet hunters Pons, Donati and Tempel. It was Donati who moved the observatory to its present location.Discovered 11 January 1991 by E. F. Helin, Palomar
(365786) Florencelosse
Florence Losse (b. 1963) is a French teacher. With love and patience, she is the best supporter of the astronomical activities of the discoverer.Discovered 25 December 2010 by Saint-Pardon-de-Conques Observatory, Saint-Pardon-de-Conques
(552420) Flodubeyjames
Florence Amy Jayne Dubey-James (b. 2012) is the granddaughter of the discoverer.Discovered 28 December 2013 by N. Falla, Mayhill