Giovanni Sostero

Giovanni Sostero

Giovanni Sostero is an Italian amateur astronomer. Born in 1964, he is one of the leading members of the Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Friuli,Italy). He is an honorary member of the Astronomical Observatory of Visnjan (Croatia), too.

Sostero is very active as a public out-reacher. Very interesting are also his scientific works, some of which published in professional astronomical journals. His main research fields are the minor bodies of the Solar System (asteroids and comets) and variable stars (symbiotic stars and supernovae): he discovered 10 supernovae.

The asteroid 9878 Sostero (1994 FQ) was named in honour of this valiant amateur astronomer.


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