The Observatory of Turin (, also known as Pino Torinese; obs. code:

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) is an

astronomical observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysics, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. Th ...

owned and operated by Italy's

National Institute for Astrophysics The National Institute for Astrophysics (, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn employ scientists, engineers and techn ...

(, INAF). It is located on the top of a hill in the town of

Pino Torinese Pino Torinese is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin. Pino Torinese borders the following municipalities: Turin, Baldissero Torinese, Chieri, Pecett ...

near

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

, in the north Italian

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region. The observatory was founded in 1759. At Pino Torinese, several asteroid discoveries were made by Italian astronomer

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in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The asteroid

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was named after the observatory's location.

Asteroids discovered at Pino Torinese

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Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino

Torino Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

1759 establishments in Italy Pino Torinese {{observatory-stub

Asteroids discovered at Pino Torinese

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