18426 Maffei | Discovered 1993 Dec. 18 by E. Colzani and G. Ventre at Sormano. |
The career of Paolo Maffei (b. 1926), former director of the Catania Observatory and an astronomer at Arcetri, Bologna, Asiago and Hamburg, has covered comets, variable stars, evolution of the universe, history of astronomy and popularization of astronomy through many inspired books. |
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