Asteroids named after people called Silvano
👶 Silvano as a baby name
Amateur astronomer Silvano Minuto (b. 1940) is founder of the Suno Observatory and promoter of several regional laws on light pollution in Italy. The name was suggested by S. Foglia.Discovered 15 March 1988 by W. Ferreri, La Silla
Silvano Massaglia (b. 1951) is an astrophysicist who has spent most of his career studying high-energy phenomena in active galactic nuclei and stars. He is now director of the Physics Department of the Torino University.Discovered 12 February 1986 by H. Debehogne, La Silla
Silvano Pagliarini (b. 1950) built the public amateur observatory “Padre Angelo Secchi” in Castelnovo Sotto in 1978. In 1980 he was co-founder of the Associazione Reggiana di Astronomia, which focuses on public outreach and basic astronomy teaching for primary and secondary schools in the Reggio Emilia province.Discovered 24 January 2003 by Boattini, A., Scholl, H., La Silla
Silvano Delbo’ (1941–2026) was an Italian mechanic and the father of planetary scientist M. Delbo. He devoted his final years to building and donating telescopes for lunar monitoring of impact flashes, thereby enabling research by planetary scientists, including early-career researchers.Discovered 24 August 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
Silvano Fuso (b. 1959) is a teacher and a science writer, who worked in the field of molecular spectroscopy. He is a fellow of CICAP, a scientific committee for defense of science and reason, and he has written several books on the critical analysis of pseudosciences.Discovered 10 October 2006 by Tesi, L., Fagioli, G., San Marcello
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