Francesco Manca

List of discovered asteroids : 26

(9111) Matarazzo	January 28, 1997	[1]
(9115) Battisti	February 27, 1997	[1]
(9796) 1996 HW	April 19, 1996	[2]
(10387) Bepicolombo	October 18, 1996	[1]
(10605) Guidoni	November 3, 1996	[3]
(10606) Crocco	November 3, 1996	[3]
(11652) Johnbrownlee	February 7, 1997	[1]
(12405) Nespoli	September 15, 1995	[3]
(18542) Broglio	December 29, 1996	[4]
(18556) Battiato	February 7, 1997	[1]
(19318) Somanah	2nd December 1996	[5]
(21289) 1996 VB 1	November 3, 1996	[3]
(26197) Bormio	March 31, 1997	[1]
(27855) Giorgilli	4th January 1995	[4]
(32944) Gussalli	November 19, 1995	[1]
(35334) Yarkovsky	March 31, 1997	[1]
(37022) Robertovittori	October 22, 2000	[6]
(39734) Marchiori	December 14, 1996	[2]
(43956) Elidoro	March 31, 1997	[1]
(43957) Invernizzi	February 7, 1997	[1]
(48643) Allen-Beach	October 20, 1995	[1]
(59087) Maccacaro	November 15, 1998	[1]
(69961) Millosevich	November 15, 1998	[1]
(79847) 1998 XY 2	December 7, 1998	[4]
(96583) 1998 VG 34	November 15, 1998	[1]
(100641) 1997 VO 4	November 3, 1997	[3]
[1] with Piero Sicoli [2] with Paolo Chiavenna [3] with Valter Giuliani [4] with Augusto Testa [5] with Marco Cavagna [6] with Graziano Ventre

Francesco Manca (* 1966 in Milan ) is an Italian astronomer and asteroid discoverer at the Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano ( IAU code 587) with experience in the observation and search of near-earth objects (NEO) at professional observatories in Arizona. The non-observational activity is also the calculation of the approach to the earth of asteroids and comets, connected with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA, which mainly studies the NEOs and identifies their orbits. Manca is a member of SIMCA (Società Italiana di Meccanica Celeste e Astrodinamica) and Spaceguard Foundation and writes articles for specialist journals. His professional activity is dedicated to the measuring systems, which and for a precise positioning on the large optical telescopes or radio telescopes such as VLT Very Large Telescope , ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array , E-ELT European Extremely Large Telescope , ASTRI (Astrophysics with mirrors to Technology Replicant Italian) , NEOSTEL (Fly Eye telescope for ESA), DAG (Turkish for Eastern Anatolia Observatory) and LBT Large Binocular Telescope can be installed as well as used in applications in space.

The asteroid (15460) Manca was named after him.

Publications

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

source

• Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . 5th edition. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 (English) ( preview on Google Book Search )
• Sormano Astronomical Observatory : Internal reports, scientific papers and broadcast interview (English)
• Publication excerpt from ADS ( The SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System )

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