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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14, 1835 – July 4, 1910) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
. He studied at the University of Turin
University of Turin

The University of Turin is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. It is considered the 4th most important university in Italy....
 and Berlin Observatory
Berlin Observatory

The Berlin Observatory has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the Societ?t der Wissenschaften which would later become the Preu?ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ....
 and worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory.

His niece Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Artistic inspiration Italian people fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars....
 became a famed couturiere
Haute couture

Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques....
.

bserved objects in the solar system
Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those Astronomical object bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 known Natural satellite, and billions of Small Solar System body....
, and after observing Mars he named the "seas
Lunar mare

The lunar maria are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. They were dubbed maria, Latin for "seas", by early astronomers who mistook them for actual seas....
" and "continents". Beginning in 1877 he also believed he had observed long straight features he called canali in Italian, meaning "channels" but mistranslated as "canals".






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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14, 1835 – July 4, 1910) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
. He studied at the University of Turin
University of Turin

The University of Turin is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. It is considered the 4th most important university in Italy....
 and Berlin Observatory
Berlin Observatory

The Berlin Observatory has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the Societ?t der Wissenschaften which would later become the Preu?ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ....
 and worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory.

His niece Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Artistic inspiration Italian people fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars....
 became a famed couturiere
Haute couture

Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques....
.

Astronomy

He observed objects in the solar system
Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those Astronomical object bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 known Natural satellite, and billions of Small Solar System body....
, and after observing Mars he named the "seas
Lunar mare

The lunar maria are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. They were dubbed maria, Latin for "seas", by early astronomers who mistook them for actual seas....
" and "continents". Beginning in 1877 he also believed he had observed long straight features he called canali in Italian, meaning "channels" but mistranslated as "canals". Many decades later these canals of Mars
Martian canals

For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was believed that there were canals on Mars. These were a network of long straight lines that appeared in drawings of the planet Mars in the equatorial regions from 60? N....
 were definitively shown to be an optical illusion
Optical illusion

An optical illusion is characterized by visual perception images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source....
. He was also the first to demonstrate that the Perseid
Perseids

The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant , lies in the constellation Perseus ....
 and Leonid
Leonids

The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the location of their Radiant in the constellation Leo : the meteors appear to stream from that point in the sky....
 meteor shower
Meteor shower

Meteor showers, some of which are known as "meteor storms" , "meteor outbursts,"or "star storm are celestial events in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the sky....
s were associated with comet
Comet

A comet is a Small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma or a tail?both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the Comet nucleus....
s, and he discovered the asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
 69 Hesperia
69 Hesperia

69 Hesperia is a large, M-type asteroid main belt asteroid.Hesperia was discovered by the famous Italy astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli on April 26, 1861....
 on April 26, 1861.

Honors and Awards

Awards
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

    The Gold Medal is the highest award of the Royal Astronomical Society....
     (1872)
  • Bruce Medal
    Bruce Medal

    The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy....
     (1902)
Named after him
  • Asteroid
    Asteroid

    Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
     4062 Schiaparelli
    4062 Schiaparelli

    4062 Schiaparelli is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on January 28, 1989 at the Osservatorio San Vittore at Bologna. It is named after Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli....
  • The crater Schiaparelli
    Schiaparelli (lunar crater)

    Schiaparelli is a small moon Impact crater located on the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the west of the crater Herodotus . The rim is relatively sharp-edged and relatively free from impact wear....
     on the Moon
    Moon

    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
  • The crater Schiaparelli
    Schiaparelli (Martian crater)

    Schiaparelli is an impact crater on Mars named after Giovanni Schiaparelli located near Mars' equator. It is 461 kilometers in diameter and located at latitude 3? South and longitude 344?....
     on Mars


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