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  Francesco de Vico -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Father Francesco de Vico (1805 – 1848) was an Italian (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomer at (Click link for more info and facts about Vatican Observatory) Vatican Observatory, and also a (A member of the Jesuit order) Jesuit.
He discovered or co-discovered a number of ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit) comets, including periodic comets 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT and 122P/de Vico.
He also independently discovered the comet (C/1847 T1) that brought fame to (United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889)) Maria Mitchell, two days after she did.
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Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
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François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt
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 The Nine Planets Glossary
The first to use a telescope to study the stars.
Images from Voyager and Cassini show a much smaller gap near the very outer edge of the A ring which has been named the Keeler Gap.
On the other hand, the "Encke" gap which was seen by Keeler may have been seen even earlier by Francesco De Vico, William Lassell and/or the Rev. William R. Dawes.
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