Asteroids named after people called Marcel
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(10306) Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was a French writer who will be always remembered for his novels Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. One of his comedies, Topaze, dealing with the corruptive power of money, brought him extraordinary success at the theater.Discovered 21 August 1990 by E. W. Elst, Haute Provence
(10403) Marcelgrun
The Czech astronomer Marcel Grün (b. 1946) is director of the Prague Planetarium. His main field of interest is education and popularization of astronautics, cosmonautics and space exploration.Discovered 22 November 1997 by Ticha, J., Tichy, M., Klet
(12275) Marcelgoffin
Marcel Goffin (1913-1999) was an accomplished amateur violin maker. He earned his living as a humble service technician by day but devoted most of his free time to his real vocation, violin making. In this art he was completely self-taught. He built a total of 50 instruments, the last one when he was 85 years old.Discovered 15 November 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(22281) Popescu
Marcel Popescu (b. 1983) is a specialist in asteroid spectroscopy at the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. His particular contributions are in the spectral characterization of near-Earth asteroids and their mineralogical modeling.Discovered 14 August 1985 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
(23946) Marcelleroux
Belgian amateur astronomer Marcel Le roux (b. 1930) has worked for many years in the south of France, where he has used and improved the Schmidt telescope at the Observatoire provençal d´astrophotographie. After photographing comets and minor planets, he now mostly spends time on Hα photography of the sun.Discovered 22 October 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
(26883) Marcelproust
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist and essayist, widely considered to be one of the most influential author of the 20th century. His monumental novel Á la recherche du temps perdu was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, the last three volumes being edited by his brother, Robert.Discovered 12 August 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(30307) Marcelriesz
Marcel Riesz (1886-1969) was a Hungarian-born mathematician (and brother of Frigyes Riesz) who spent most of his working life in Sweden. He did research in convexity theory, linear operators, potential theory and partial differential equations.Discovered 2 May 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(31378) Neidinger
Marcel Neidinger (b. 1996) was awarded second place in the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his physics and astronomy team project. He attends the Hans Thoma Gymnasium, Lorrach, Germany.Discovered 14 December 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(37044) Papymarcel
Marcel Alphonse Merlin (b. 1922) is the father of the discoverer. Now celebrating his eightieth birthday, he was the principal artisan in the construction of the discoverer's private observatory.Discovered 27 October 2000 by J.-C. Merlin, Le Creusot
(85183) Marcelayme
Marcel Aymé (1902-1967) was a French novelist, screenwriter and theater playwright. Educated at the College de Dole, he worked as a journalist in Paris while publishing his first novel Brûlebois (1926). His novel La Table aux crevés won the Prix Renaudot in 1929. He was buried near Montmartre.Discovered 18 January 1991 by E. W. Elst, Haute Provence
(99262) Bleustein
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906-1996) established the Foundation of the Vocation in 1960. The foundation provides financial help for young people who devote their lives to a vocation in various domains (arts, literature, medicine, sciences, etc.). The discoverer was a laureate of this foundation in 1982.Discovered 20 July 2001 by J.-C. Merlin, Le Creusot
(135978) Agueros
Marcel Agüeros (b. 1973) is a French-Puerto Rican astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Marcel has worked on a variety of problems in stellar astrophysics, including searching for isolated neutron stars and examining the age-rotation-activity relation in open clusters.Discovered 4 October 2002 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Apache Point
(184878) Gotlib
Marcel Gotlieb (Gotlib, b. 1934) is a cartoonist, born in Paris. He contributed to many comic strip magazines, including Pilote, in which he created the Rubrique-à-Brac in 1968. He established the magazines L´Echo des Savanes in 1972 and Fluide Glacial in 1975.Discovered 26 October 2005 by J.-C. Merlin, Nogales
(187123) Schorderet
Jean-Marcel Schorderet (b. 1935) is a retired director and producer at the Swiss public television. Since 1965 has been in charge of most of the programs regarding space exploration. In 1981 he created a scientific program called “Telescope” that received the Jules Verne prize in 1996.Discovered 30 August 2005 by M. Ory, Vicques
(201497) Marcelroche
Born in Caracas, Marcel Roche (1920-2003) conducted research in biomedicine and the management of science. He was first president of the National Council of Scientific Research (1969), a promoter of the National Observatory of Venezuela in Mérida and a winner of UNESCO's Kalinga prize for the popularization of science.Discovered 2 May 2003 by Ferrin, I. R., Leal, C., Merida
(233522) Moye
Marcel Moye (1873-1939) was a founding member of the Flammarion Astronomical Society of Montpellier, which administered the Babote observatory from 1902 to 1922. He was a doctor of science, medicine and law.Discovered 18 April 2007 by Pises, Pises
(750032) Jinca
Marcel Jinca (b. 1968) is a Romanian amateur astronomer. Since 2009 he has led the Gorj county branch of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy. Marcel does public outreach in schools, museums and summer camps. He publishes an astronomical yearbook, books and training pupils for astronomy Olympiad.Discovered 29 July 2014 by EURONEAR, La Palma