Giovanni Sostero

Giovanni Sostero is an Italian amateur astronomer. Born in 1964, he is one of the leading members of the Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Friuli, Italy). He is an honorary member of the Astronomical Observatory of Visnjan (Croatia), too.

Sostero is very active as a public out-reacher and has published some scientific works in professional astronomical journals. His main research fields are the minor bodies of the Solar System (asteroids and comets) and variable stars (symbiotic stars and supernovae). In particular, he discovered several supernovae: 2009jp, 2008ae, 2008F, 2007cl, 2006br, 2006bm, 2006H, 2006B, 2005ly, 2005kz, 2005kc.^[1] In 2000 he co-discovered a nova in the galaxy M31.^[2]

The asteroid 9878 Sostero (1994 FQ) was named after him.

References

^ "List of Supernovae". IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/lists/Supernovae.html. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
^ "IAUC 7516: SNe; N IN M31". IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/07500/07516.html. Retrieved 2011-07-03.

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