Asteroids named after people called Gaspard
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(16564) Coriolis
Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (1792–1843) was a French mathematician and physicist who showed that the laws of motion could be used in a rotating frame by adding an extra force, the Coriolis acceleration, to the equations of motion (Sur les équations du mouvement relatif des systèmes de corps, 1835).Discovered 30 January 1992 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(28766) Monge
While a student at the Ecole Royal du Génie, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) solved a problem relating to the design of a fortress that became the germ of his later development of descriptive geometry, a technique for representing three-dimensional objects by their projections on several planes.Discovered 29 April 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(35429) Bochartdesaron
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron (1730–1794) was a French magistrate and president of the Paris parliament. An amateur astronomer and mathematician, he was the first to compute a circular orbit for Uranus, and he computed orbits for many of Messier's comets until his death during the French Revolution.Discovered 18 January 1998 by ODAS, Caussols