Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14, 1835 – July 4, 1910) was an Italian astronomer. He studied at the University of Turin and Berlin Observatory and worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... 69 Hesperia is a large, metal-rich main belt asteroid. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... -1... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... The University of Turin (Italian Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO) is the university of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. ... The Berlin Observatory has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the Brandenburgische Society which would later become Prussian Academy of Sciences. ... ...

He observed objects in the solar system, and after observing Mars he named the seas and continents. Beginning in 1877 he also believed he had observed long straight features he called canali in Italian, meaning "channels" but famously mistranslated as "canals". Many decades later these canals of Mars were definitively shown to be an optical illusion. Major features of the solar system (not to scale) The solar system comprises the Earths Sun and the retinue of celestial objects gravitationally bound to it. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was believed that there were canals on Mars. ... An optical illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading [1]. Thus information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of ir, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of...

He was also the first to demonstrate that the Perseid and Leonid meteor showers were associated with comets. The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. ... 1966 Leonid Meteor Shower The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. ... Leonid Meteor Shower From earliest times, humankind has noticed flurries of meteors that seemed to emanate from particular points in the sky at particular times of the year. ... Comet Hale-Bopp For other uses, see Comet (disambiguation). ...

His niece Elsa Schiaparelli became a famed couturiere. Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was the leading designer of the 1920s and 30s after Coco Chanel. ...

Honors and Awards for Giovanni Schiaparelli

Awards

• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872)
• Bruce Medal (1902)

Named after him Gold Medal awarded to Asaph Hall The Gold Medal is the highest award of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... The Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

• Asteroid 4062 Schiaparelli
• Schiaparelli crater on the Moon
• Crater on Mars

An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Schiaparelli is a lunar crater located on the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the west of Herodotus crater. ... Bulk composition of the moons mantle and crust estimated, weight percent Oxygen 42. ... Tycho crater on Earths moon. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ...

References

• "Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835-1910)" - biography from http://www.daviddarling.info/

External links

• La Vita Sul Pianeta Marte, available for free via Project Gutenberg

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Obituaries

• (Italian) AN 185 (1910) 193/194
• ApJ 32 (1910) 313
• MNRAS 71 (1911) 282
• PASP 22 (1910) 164