Asteroids named after people called Pier
👶 Pier as a baby name
Pier Giorgio Perotto (1930-2002) was an Italian electronics engineer. An employee at Olivetti, in 1964 he invented the world's first desktop programmable electronic calculator, known variously as “Programma 101” and “Perottina”.Discovered 19 November 1982 by Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna
Pier Luigi Bernacca (1940-2013), associate professor of Astronomy, was Director for several years of the PhD School of Space Sciences and Technologies at the University of Padova. He studied Be stars with ground and space telescopes, and made great contributions to the ESA Hipparcos satellite.Discovered 1 February 2001 by Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey, Cima Ekar
Rene-Pier Marius-Phaneuf (b. 1971) is a Senior Project Manager at the Canadian Space Agency. He is responsible for the delivery of the OLA instrument to the OSIRIS-REx Mission. He has been involved in the Canadian contributions to Herschel (HIFI), the Mars Science Laboratory (APXS) and JWST (FGS-NIRISS).Discovered 1 November 1999 by CSS, Catalina
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