Asteroids named after people called Gianfranco
👶 Gianfranco as a baby name
Named in honor of Gianfranco Magni (b. 1943), who joined the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale in Rome in 1975. He has worked on the physics of stellar interiors, in particular on the equation of the state of gas at high pressure and temperature. Currently, his main field of interest is the origin of the solar system and of planetary systems in general, with special attention to the structure and evolution of circumstellar disks and the formation of giant planets. Involved also in the study of the origin and structure of comets, he is a team member of the cometary mission Rosetta. A lover of early music, he plays the recorder and belongs to two musical groups, “L'Amoroso Cantar” (Medieval music) and “Il Martellato” (Renaissance music).Discovered 10 July 1997 by A. Boattini, Campo Imperatore
Gianfranco Marcon (1939–2022) was an Italian telescope builder. Starting in 1970, he made hundreds of instruments up to 0.80-m diameter, which were used by individual amateurs and amateur groups. Marcon also built instruments for professional observers and universities.Discovered 8 December 1999 by F. Mallìa M. Di Sora, Campo Catino
Gianfranco Sinigaglia (1929-1990) was a teacher of radioastronomy and applied electronics at the Physics Institute of Bologna University. As an electronic engineer he designed and often invented acquisition devices and instrumentation needed by the then developing new science of radioastronomy.Discovered 31 July 2008 by Tozzi, F., Sostero, G., Skylive
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