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Francesco Manca (born November 1966, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in northern Italy.[2]

Minor planets discovered: 26 [1]

see § List of discovered minor planets

Manca also performs follow-up astrometry of near-Earth objects (NEOs). He acquired research and observational experience on the NEOs at professional observatories in Arizona, United States at Catalina Sky Survey (IAU Obs code 703 and G96) Non-observational work focuses on computations of orbit and close approaches of asteroids with the Earth (linked at Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) - Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and computation of orbit identifications of asteroids (Near Earth Asteroids, Mars-crossing asteroids , Hungaria group, Trans-Neptunian object) and comets.

He wrote many articles on specialistic magazines. Member of SIMCA (Italian: Società Italiana Meccanica Celeste e Astrodinamica) and associated (INAF) National Institute for Astrophysics. His professional activity concerns the application of measuring systems as encoders for Right Ascension and Declination (azimuth and elevation), installed on telescopes and Radio telescopes such as the VLT, LBT, ELT (Extremely Large Telescope), ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array), DAG (Turkish for Eastern Anatolia Observatory), ASTRI (Astrophysics with mirrors at Italian Replicant Technology) and NEOSTEL (FlyEye telescope) for ESA or on space instruments as Solar Monitoring Observatory.

The Koronian asteroid 15460 Manca, discovered by Andrea Boattini and Luciano Tesi at San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory in 1998, is named in his honour.[2]

List of discovered minor planets

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]

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]

(96583) 1998 VG34	15 November 1998	list [A]
(100641) 1997 VO4	3 November 1997	list [C]
Co-discovery made with: A P. Sicoli B P. Chiavenna C V. Giuliani D A. Testa E M. Cavagna F G. Ventre

See also

• Augusto Testa
• Marco Cavagna
• Graziano Ventre
• Pierangelo Ghezzi
• Piero Sicoli
• Valter Giuliani

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

External links

• Sormano Astronomical Observatory - Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano
• Computation list of orbits identification
• TECA - Table of Asteroids Next Closest Approaches to the Earth
• TAM - Table of Asteroids Next Closest Approaches to the Moon
• APEC - Interesting Asteroids Past Earth Close encounters
• Internal reports, scientific papers and broadcast interview at Sormano Observatory
• JPL - Near Earth Object Program
• Minor Planet Center
• Catalina Sky Survey
• NEODys
• The Planetary Society
• SIMCA
• ADS company Telescope Projects
• EIE Group Telescope Projects
• NEOSTEL (FlyEye) Telescope for ESA
• Officina Stellare, Ground based telescopes and Space applications
• FlyEye mount and telescope
• Advanced Telescopes
• interview in Public media RaiNews24 (2012 DA14&Russia event 2013 and more on asteroids in italian)

На других языках

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[de] Francesco Manca

Francesco Manca (* 1966 in Mailand) ist ein italienischer Astronom und Asteroidenentdecker beim Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano (IAU-Code 587) mit Erfahrung in der Observation und Suche von near-earth Objekten (NEO) bei professionellen Sternwarten in Arizona. Die nicht observative Tätigkeit ist auch die Berechnung der Annäherung an die Erde von Asteroiden und Kometen, verbunden mit dem Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA, welches hauptsächlich die NEOs studiert und ihre Umlaufbahnen identifiziert. Manca ist Mitglied von SIMCA (Società Italiana di Meccanica Celeste e Astrodinamica) und Spaceguard Foundation und schreibt Artikel für Fachzeitschriften. Seine Berufstätigkeit ist den Messsystemen gewidmet, welche sowie für eine präzise Positionierung auf den großen optischen Teleskopen oder Radioteleskopen wie VLT Very Large Telescope, ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array, E-ELT European Extremely Large Telescope, ASTRI (Astrophysik mit Spiegeln bis Technologie Replicant Italienisch),NEOSTEL (Fly Eye telescope for ESA), DAG (Turkish for Eastern Anatolia Observatory) und LBT Large Binocular Telescope installiert werden, als auch in Applikationen im All verwendet werden.

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- [en] Francesco Manca

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[es] Francesco Manca

Francesco Manca (Milán, noviembre de 1966) es un astrónomo amateur italiano y descubridor de planetas menores en el Observatorio Astronómico de Sormano en el norte de Italia.[1]

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[fr] Francesco Manca

Francesco Manca (né en novembre 1966 à Milan) est un astronome italien.

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[it] Francesco Manca

Francesco Manca (Milano, novembre 1966) è un astronomo italiano.

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[ru] Манка, Франческо

Франческо Манка (итал. Francesco Manca, 1966 (1966)) — это итальянский астроном и первооткрыватель астероидов, который работает обсерватории Сормано. В период с 1995 по 2000 год совместно с другими итальянскими астрономами им было обнаружено в общей сложности 26 астероидов[1].

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