Luigi Carnera
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Asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s discovered: 16
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| 469 Argentina
469 Argentina
469 Argentina is an asteroid that was discovered by Luigi Carnera on February 20, 1901. Its provisional name was 1901 GE. 469 Argentina has an estimated rotation period of 12.3 hours.- References :...

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| 470 Kilia
470 Kilia
470 Kilia is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1901 by Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 || April 21, 1901
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| 472 Roma
472 Roma
472 Roma is an asteroid. It was discovered by Luigi Carnera on July 11, 1901. Its provisional name was 1901 GP. This asteroid was named by Antonio Abetti for the city of Rome in Italy, thenative country of its discoverer....

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| 476 Hedwig
476 Hedwig
476 Hedwig is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1901, by Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg.-External links:* -See also:*List of Solar System objects by size...

 || August 17, 1901
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| 477 Italia
477 Italia
477 Italia is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on August 23, 1901 Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 || August 23, 1901
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| 478 Tergeste
478 Tergeste
478 Tergeste is an asteroid orbiting the Sun....

 || September 21, 1901
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| 479 Caprera
479 Caprera
479 Caprera is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || November 12, 1901
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| 480 Hansa || May 21, 1901
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| 481 Emita
481 Emita
481 Emita is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || February 12, 1902
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| 485 Genua
485 Genua
485 Genua is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || May 7, 1902
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| 486 Cremona
486 Cremona
486 Cremona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || May 11, 1902
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| 487 Venetia
487 Venetia
487 Venetia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. You can find more information ....

 || July 9, 1902
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| 488 Kreusa || June 26, 1902
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| 489 Comacina
489 Comacina
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 || September 2, 1902
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| 808 Merxia
808 Merxia
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 || October 11, 1901
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  1. with Max Wolf
    Max Wolf
    Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...


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Luigi Carnera (born in Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...

 April 14, 1875, died in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, July 30, 1962) was an Italian astronomer
Astronomer
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.

In his early career he worked as Max Wolf
Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...

's assistant at Heidelberg
Heidelberg
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

, Germany
Germany
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 and discovered a number of asteroid
Asteroid
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s. He worked in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Italy
Italy
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 and Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 before returning to Italy for good in 1908.

He was director of Trieste Observatory starting in 1919; Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...

 had just been annexed to Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 following World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. He then became director of Capodimonte Observatory in Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 starting in 1932 and until his retirement in 1950. In 1943 during World War II
World War II
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, the observatory was temporarily occupied by American and British troops in order to install a radar station.
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