Francesco Manca

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Minor planets discovered: 26 [1]
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Francesco Manca (born November 1966, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian amateur

discoverer of minor planets at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in northern Italy.[2]

Manca also performs follow-up

comets
.

He wrote many articles on specialistic magazines. Member of SIMCA (

Solar Monitoring Observatory
.

The

San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory in 1998, is named in his honour.[2]

List of discovered minor planets

See also: Category:Discoveries by Francesco Manca
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9111 Matarazzo
 28 January 1997 list [A]
9115 Battisti 27 February 1997 list [A]
(9796) 1996 HW 19 April 1996 list [B]
10387 Bepicolombo
 18 October 1996 list [A]
10605 Guidoni
 3 November 1996 list [C]
10606 Crocco
 3 November 1996 list [C]
11652 Johnbrownlee
 7 February 1997 list [A]
12405 Nespoli
 15 September 1995 list [C]
18542 Broglio
 29 December 1996 list [D]
18556 Battiato
 7 February 1997 list [A]
19318 Somanah
 2 December 1996 list [E]
21289 Giacomel
 3 November 1996 list [C]
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26197 Bormio
 31 March 1997 list [A]
27855 Giorgilli
 4 January 1995 list [D]
32944 Gussalli
 19 November 1995 list [A]
35334 Yarkovsky
 31 March 1997 list [A]
37022 Robertovittori
 22 October 2000 list [F]
39734 Marchiori
 14 December 1996 list [B]
43956 Elidoro
 7 February 1997 list [A]
43957 Invernizzi
 7 February 1997 list [A]
48643 Allen-Beach
 20 October 1995 list [A]
59087 Maccacaro
 15 November 1998 list [A]
69961 Millosevich
 15 November 1998 list [A]
(79847) 1998 XY2 7 December 1998 list [D]
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(96583) 1998 VG34 15 November 1998 list [A]
(100641) 1997 VO4 3 November 1997 list [C]
Co-discovery made with:
A
G. Ventre

See also

Publications

  • "Asteroid and Planet Close Encounters", Minor Planet Bulletin, ( 1999 F. Manca, P. Sicoli )
  • "Monitoring Hazardous Objects", Proceedings of the Third Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, ( 2000 F. Manca, P. Sicoli )
  • "Planetary Close Encounters", Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, ( 2002 F. Manca, P. Sicoli )
  • "Minor planet recovery: analysis and verification of data obtained by OrbFit and Edipo software", Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, ( 2003 F. Manca, A. Testa, M. Carpino)
  • "Identification of asteroids and comets: methods and results", Proceedings of the X National Conference on Planetary Science. (2011 F. Manca, P. Sicoli, and A. Testa)
  • "Identification of asteroids and comets: update on methods and results". Proceedings of the XI National Conference on Planetary Science. (2013 F. Manca, A. Testa)
  • "Close encounters among asteroids, comets, Earth-Moon system and inner planets: the cases of (99942) Apophis and Comet C/2013 A1 ". Proceedings of the XII Italian national workshop of planetary sciences. (2015 F. Manca, P. Sicoli, A. Testa)
  • "(WMT) Wide-field Mufara Telescope", Presentation at XIV Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, ( 2018 F. Manca, M. Di Martino )
  • Publication excerpt from ADS (The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System)

MPECs, CBETs and IAUCs

References

  1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3
    .

External links
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