Asteroids named after people called Gerolamo

(11421) Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), prototypical Renaissance man, physician, mathematician, astrologer, inventor and gambler, was the first to publish the solution of the cubic and quartic equations and to give a systematic calculation of probabilities in connection with games of chance.Discovered 10 June 1999 by P. G. Comba, Prescott

(29568) Gobbi-Belcredi

Gerolamo Gobbi-Belcredi (1820-1899) was a student at the astronomical observatory of Modena during 1841-1848. He observed comets and minor planets and calculated their orbits. He became professor of physics at the University of Genoa and Parma and later professor of geodesy at the University of Pavia.Discovered 25 March 1998 by Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna