Asteroids named after people called Sylvain
👶 Sylvain as a baby name
Sylvain Lodiot (b. 1975) is a French engineer at the European Space Agency. He was the operations manager of the Rosetta spacecraft that successfully visited the comet 67P and supervises the operation of other small-body missions at ESA, in particular the Hera planetary defense mission.Discovered 8 January 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician and freemason. In 1759 he calculated an orbit for the next appearance of Halley's comet and in 1771 he published his essay Sur les inégalités de la lumière des satellites de Jupiter.Discovered 10 August 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Sylvain Bouley (b. 1982) is a planetary geologist who studies impact cratering. He has also written several books for science popularization.Discovered 20 August 2001 by Pic du Midi, Pic du Midi
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