Asteroid named after professor

Professor Massimiliano Vasile, who actively works on locating solutions to govern the movement of asteroids, has received the honor from the global Astronomical Union (IAU) in reputation of his work.

Professor Vasile stated: "There are several masses of heaps of asteroids in area. Out of those exceptionally few are known, and even fewer are actively tracked.

"In honour of my work on asteroid manipulation, SpaceDyS, one of the companions in the Stardust community, submitted my candidacy to the Minor Planet Centre to call an asteroid after me. The Committee on Small frame Nomenclature of the IAU, a part of the MPC, evaluated the submission and subsequently assigned my call to asteroid 2002 PX33.

"the only they picked is part of the asteroid belt. it's miles highly large but, fortunately, now not dangerous."

Professor Vasile is leading the Stardust community, an global, ecu-funded programme comprising researchers and leaders from 20 exceptional establishments, with the cause of advancing studies into the manipulation of asteroids and area debris, and the goal of defensive the planet and area assets from catastrophic influences.

Asteroid 2002 PX33, which has been named Maxvasile, is in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. It measures an estimated three.1622 km in diameter and has a minimal distance of one.08 astronomical units -around one hundred,393,201 miles -- from Earth, a similar distance to that of the Earth from the solar.

The Maxvasile asteroid has a length of orbit around the sun of round 3 and a half of years. the nearest distance it reaches to the sun is 2.0794 astronomical devices -- round 193,292,305 miles. The asteroid become located in 2002 via an Italian observatory, with the primary recorded observation in 1993.

different famous people to have had asteroids named after them consist of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, scientists Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, novelists Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and musicians Stevie wonder and Freddie Mercury.