Asteroids named after people called Silvia

(7396) Rosa-Brusin

Named in honor of Silvia Rosa-Brusin, head of one of the principal Italian scientific programs. She is strongly involved in popular astronomy and is in close contact with scientists around the world. Her programs on Italian television constitute a serious reference for interested people.Discovered 4 March 1986 by W. Ferreri, La Silla

(9529) Protopapa

Silvia Protopapa (b. 1981) is an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the properties of ice and refractory elements present in comets and on the surfaces of Kuiper Belt objects.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring

(10696) Giuliattiwinter

Silvia Maria Giuliatti Winter (b. 1965) is a Brazilian astronomer at the S茫o Paulo State University working on ring dynamics and the dynamics of the Pluto system.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring

(131766) Silviaferrara

Silvia Ferrara (b. 1976) is an Italian Professor of Aegean Philology at Bologna University, Principal Investigator of the Projects INSCRIBE and SAPIENCE, two multidisciplinary research initiatives dedicated to revealing the inventions of scripts and their beginning in six distinct areas of the world.Discovered 10 January 2002 by CINEOS, Campo Imperatore

(159865) Silvialonso

Silvia Alonso Perez (b. 1976), of La Laguna, Tenerife, was responsible for teaching astrometry to many Spanish amateur astronomers. This was the beginning of the Minor Planet Center's assignment of many new observatory codes in Spain.Discovered 12 August 2004 by J. Manteca, Begues