Asteroids named after people called Francoise
馃懚 Francoise as a baby name
Fran莽oise Launay (b. 1944) was a research engineer at Meudon Observatory where she was the technical head for a very-high-resolution VUV spectrograph. She is involved in the preservation of historical instruments, undertook research on Cassini's Moon map and Laurent Cassegrain, and wrote a biography of Jules Janssen.Discovered 2 March 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
Fran莽oise Colas (b. 1958) is a French amateur astronomer who has taken part in numerous trans-Neptunian stellar occultation observations all over the world. She is also part of the observation team at the Pic du Midi 1-m telescope.Discovered 20 August 2001 by Pic du Midi, Pic du Midi
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