Asteroids named after people called Marin
馃懚 Marin as a baby name
Marin Dacian Bica (1970-2013) was a Romanian professor of physics and astronomy, and a popular tutor to Romanian middle school students participating in International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiads. Name suggested by the SGAC Name An Asteroid Campaign.Discovered 14 January 1988 by H. Debehogne, La Silla
Named for Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), French mathematician and philosopher, best known for his discovery of prime numbers of the form 2n-1 and that n is then necessarily also prime. The number 8191 = 213-1 is the fifth Mersenne prime. Mersenne correctly verified that the numbers are prime also for n = 17, 19 and 31---and that they are not prime for n = 11, 23 and 29. The largest prime Mersenne correctly established was for n = 127. Name proposed by the discoverer, following a suggestion by B. G. Marsden, who wrote the citation.Discovered 20 July 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Marin Marais (1656-1728) was the central figure in the French school of bass-viol composers and performers that flourished during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The five volumes of Pi猫ces de Violes (1686-1725) represent accomplishment of great scope and originality.Discovered 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Marin Ferrais (b. 1993) is a Belgian post-doctoral associate at the Arecibo Observatory. He obtained his Ph.D. from at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille in France working on shape modeling of large main-belt asteroids observed by Sphere.Discovered 29 July 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
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