Asteroids named after people called Marcin
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Marcin Odlanicki Poczobut (Lithuanian: Martynas Počobutas, 1728–1810) was a Lithuanian-Polish Jesuit, astronomer and mathematician who was Director of the Vilnius Astronomical Observatory from 1764 to 1807. He was a professor at Vilnius University for over 40 years, serving as its rector from 1780 to 1799. The lunar crater Poczobut is named after him.Discovered 12 October 2004 by J. ZdanaviÄius K. Äernis, Moletai
Marcin Piwowarski (1984-2007) was a computer consultant, specializing in flight simulators. In his spare time he loved to do sports. He was a pacifist by conviction, a very talented photographer and played drums in a rock band. He found energy and recovery in nature, on his travels and in astronomy.Discovered 24 July 2006 by M. Griesser, Winterthur
Marcin Gedek (b. 1978) is a Polish amateur astronomer. Thanks to his experience, knowledge and passion, he built several remotely controlled observatories, including the Polonia Observatory, where comet C/2015 F2 (Polonia) was discovered.Discovered 8 September 2012 by M. Å»oÅnowski M. Kusiak, Tincana
Marcin Sawicki (b. 1969) is a Canadian Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition, he is the Director of the Institute for Computational Astrophysics and a founding member of the JWST Near infrared Imager and slitless spectrograph instrument science.Discovered 16 December 2003 by D. D. Balam, Maunakea
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