Francesco Manca

Francesco Manca (born 1966 in Milan ) is an Italian amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids.

He works at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano (IAU code 587 ) in Sormano and discovered together with colleagues from a total of 26 asteroids.

The asteroid ( 15460 ) Manca was named after him.

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 )

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2009- Y21: COMET P/2009 W1 ( Hill )

IAUC 9102: COMET P/2009 W1 ( Hill )

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2009- H16: PHA 1990 UA = 2009 FJ44

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2008 - G29: PHA 2005 GY8 = 2008 FG5

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2010 - G51: PHA 1998 WB2 = 2010 GJ7

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012 - H43: NEA 2001 Qn142 = 2012 HP2

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012 - S56: NEA 2005 CZ6 = 2012 SO30

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012 - T47: NEA 2007 UZ1 = 2012 TC53

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012 - T65: NEA 2010 JN33 = 2012 TU78

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012 - U91: PHA 1999 VR6 = 2012 UV68

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2013 - F21: 2001 PHA TA2 = 2013 FH

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2013 - J68: NEA 2008 HJ3 = 2013 JV22

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2013 - T67: NEA 2010 VD1 = 2013 TZ68

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2013 - X11: 1998 NEA WP7 = 2013 WS45

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2014 - C52: NEA 1995 CR = 2014 CL13

Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. 5th ed Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 (English ) [ Preview from Google Book Search ]

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