| 6952 Niccolò | Discovered 1986 May 4 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. |
| Named for Niccolò Fulchignoni (b. 1991), second son of Marcello Fulchignoni and M. Antonietta Barucci, planetary scientists at the Observatoire de Paris. Niccolò is the "Renaissance" Italian form of the name Nikolaus (northern Europe's Santa Claus) and has been given to distinguished personalities of the arts, literature and philosophy---Paganini, Tommaseo and Machiavelli, for example. Name suggested and citation provided by M. Fulchignoni. |
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| Reference: 19980211/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2009-11-17 |
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