Asteroid Jannik Sinner: a Celestial Body Bears Its Name
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Did you think that Jannik Sinner could not go beyond the number one position of the Atp ranking? And yes, because the blue tennis player has even arrived in space. Not literally, of course, but thanks to a very special recognition: the Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has ratified the assignment of the name of the Italian champion to an asteroid of the solar system, inserting the decis…
The IAU (International Astronomical Union) has ratified the assignment of the name 'Jannik Sinner' to an asteroid discovered back in 2003
A working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has established the attribution of the name of the Italian champion to an asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter, writes ANSA. Discovered on March 10, 2003 at the Observatory Campo Imperatore by a team from Tuscany, the asteroid will be named "(120097) Janniksinner. Those who requested the attribution of this name were two of the discoverers: astronomer Fabrizio Bernardi, who w…
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