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Carlos Ulrrico Cesco

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His older brother, Ronaldo P. Cesco, was a mathematician and celestial mechanician and director of the La Plata Observatory. They both studied at the Universidad de la Plata.

Legacy

The Carlos Ulrico Cesco Observatory is named after him (formerly known as the Félix Aguilar Observatory).

The outer main-belt asteroid 1571 Cesco, discovered by Miguel Itzigsohn at La Plata Observatory in 1950, was named after Carlos and Ronaldo Cesco. The official naming citation was published by the MPC on 6 June 1982 (M.P.C. 6954).

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