Carlos Ulrrico Cesco Explained

Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (died 1987) was an Argentine astronomer. He lived most of his life in San Juan, Argentina. He was a well-known discoverer of minor planets credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 19 numbered minor planets.

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

Asteroids discovered: 19 
May 10, 1967
May 6, 1967
March 3, 1971
January 1, 1968
September 16, 1971
November 11, 1971
September 24, 1970
May 6, 1967
May 6, 1967
June 17, 1971
May 6, 1967
September 27, 1971
June 8, 1969
May 6, 1967
April 27, 1967
May 6, 1967
May 6, 1967
September 16, 1971
April 9, 1969
with A. R. Klemola, with A. G. Samuel, with J. Gibson
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 .