Asteroids named after people called Giacomo
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(8081) Leopardi
Named in memory of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet and prose writer famous for his collection of poems I Canti and the collection of prose Operette Morali. When he was only 15 years old he wrote an erudite history of astronomy, recently reprinted in Italy.Discovered 17 February 1988 by Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna
(8716) Ginestra
Named for a poem by Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), the great poet and philosopher from the Italian Romantic period. Full of astronomical references, his poetry expresses the great sense of bewilderment of post-Copernican man, faced with an infinite variety of worlds of which he is no longer the center, but only infinitesimal and marginal. Nevertheless, the “Ginestra” becomes the symbol of man/flower in the middle of the cosmos/desert, a cosmos sustained by rigid mechanistic laws, indifferent to every desire and human sentiment, existing only to perpetuate the cycle of production and universal destruction. Name suggested and citation prepared by M. Vicoli.Discovered 23 September 1995 by V. S. Casulli, Colleverde
(18149) Colombatti
Giacomo Colombatti (b. 1972), of the University of Padova, participated in the final phases of the Cassini/Huygens mission cruise and analyzed data collected during the Huygens probe's descent to Titan. The name was suggested by M. Fulchignoni.Discovered 29 July 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(44033) Michez
Giacomo Michez (1839-1873) was an Italian astronomer. He was director of the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna from 1870 to 1873, where he observed minor planets and comets and calculated their orbits.Discovered 15 February 1998 by Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna
(89735) Tommei
Giacomo Tommei (b. 1978) carried out research at the University of Pisa on the impact monitoring of near-Earth objects. His research interests in celestial mechanics include the orbit determination and dynamics of NEOs.Discovered 4 January 2002 by Boattini, A., Tesi, L., San Marcello