Carlos Ulrrico Cesco
Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (died 1987) was an Argentine astronomer. He lived most of his life in San Juan, Argentina. He was a well-known discoverer of minor planets credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 19 numbered minor planets.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /><ref name="springer" />
His older brother, Ronaldo P. Cesco, was a mathematician and celestial mechanician and director of the La Plata Observatory.<ref name="springer" /> They both studied at the Universidad de la Plata.
Legacy
| 1770 Schlesinger Template:Ref label | May 10, 1967 |
| 1829 Dawson Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 1867 Deiphobus | March 3, 1971 |
| 1917 Cuyo Template:Ref label | January 1, 1968 |
| 1919 Clemence Template:Ref label | September 16, 1971 |
| 1920 Sarmiento Template:Ref label | November 11, 1971 |
| 1958 Chandra | September 24, 1970 |
| 1991 Darwin Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 2308 Schilt Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 2399 Terradas | June 17, 1971 |
| 2504 Gaviola Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 3833 Calingasta Template:Ref label | September 27, 1971 |
| 5299 Bittesini | June 8, 1969 |
| 5757 Tichá Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 8127 Beuf | April 27, 1967 |
| 8128 Nicomachus Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 10450 Girard Template:Ref label | May 6, 1967 |
| 11437 Cardalda Template:Ref label | September 16, 1971 |
| Template:Mp | April 9, 1969 |
| Template:Note label with A. R. Klemola, Template:Note label with A. G. Samuel, Template:Note label with J. Gibson | |
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The Carlos Ulrico Cesco Observatory is named after him (formerly known as the Félix Aguilar Observatory).
The outer main-belt asteroid 1571 Cesco, discovered by Miguel Itzigsohn at La Plata Observatory in 1950, was named after Carlos and Ronaldo Cesco.<ref name="springer" /> The official naming citation was published by the MPC on 6 June 1982 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />