The Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory ( it, Osservatorio Astrometrico Santa Lucia Stroncone) is an
astronomical observatory
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located at altitude in
Stroncone, near the city of
Terni
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, in
Umbria
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, north central Italy.
It is an active center for the discovery of
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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s. Stroncone is also known as
IAU
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MPC observatory 589. It is located at
longitude
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12º38'24"E,
latitude
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42º30'55"N.
The main-belt asteroid
5609 Stroncone, discovered by amateur astronomer
Antonio Vagnozzi
Antonio Vagnozzi (born 1950) is an amateur Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids.
Astronomical career
Vagnozzi is credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 46 minor planets during 1993–1999. In 1993, he was I ...
at Stroncone in 1993, was named after the suburb where the discovering observatory is located.
List of discovered minor planets
See also
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List of asteroid-discovering observatories
The list of asteroid-discovering observatories contains a section for each observatory which has discovered one or more asteroids, along with a list of those asteroids.
For each numbered asteroid, the Minor Planet Center lists one or more discov ...
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List of astronomical observatories
This is a list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location. The list also includes a final year of operation for many observatories that are no longer in ...
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List of observatory codes
This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, ''see observations of small Solar System bodies
Observations of minor planets as well as comets and natural satellite ...
References
External links
Pictures of the ObservatoryAstronomy from wide-field imaging: proceedings of the 161st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union ''Brian Marsden'', IAU, 1994
Astronomical observatories in Italy
Minor-planet discovering observatories
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