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Jean-Luc Margot is a Belgian-born UCLA planetary astronomer, noted for radar studies of asteroids and the 2007 evidence for Mercury's molten core.
Amy Mainzer is an American astronomer specializing in infrared surveys, principal investigator of NEOWISE and NASA's NEO Surveyor mission.
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German physician-astronomer who discovered Pallas in 1802 and Vesta in 1807 and formulated Olbers' paradox.
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a 19th-century German astronomer who assisted Johann Galle in the historic 1846 discovery of Neptune, successfully observing the planet at the Berlin Observatory.
Italian astronomer who on January 1, 1801, discovered Ceres, the first known asteroid and now classified as a dwarf planet.
German astronomer (1758–1840) who discovered asteroids Pallas (1802) and Vesta (1807) and formulated Olbers' paradox on the darkness of the night sky.
John Russell Hind was an English astronomer at George Bishop's observatory who discovered ten asteroids, including Iris in 1847.
Annibale de Gasparis was an Italian astronomer at Naples who discovered nine asteroids between 1849 and 1865, beginning with Hygiea.
