The Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has named asteroid n. 315046 after amateur astronomer and sundialist Gianni Ferrari.
*Gianni Ferrari (b. 1938) is the founder of the Modena Amateur Astronomers Group. He has given many lectures and written several articles and computer programs and also two books about sundials calculation* Gianni was informed that one of the factors leading to the decision was his receiving the Sawyer Dialing Prize from NASS a couple years ago. For more info, see https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi Enter as Name 315046 or “Gianniferrari” . With the "Orbit Diagram" option you can see the orbit
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