Stefano Sposetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Swiss astronomer
Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1958
Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Profession: astronomer
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Stefano Sposetti
- Stefano Sposetti (born 22 December 1958) is a Swiss amateur astronomer, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
- He lives in Gnosca, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland in the Ticino Alps, where the Gnosca Observatory is located. Sposetti took images of 2004 FH, an Aten asteroid which made a sub-lunar flyby of Earth.
- In addition, he detects the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and conducts transit photometry on exoplanets at his observatory.As of 2019, Sposetti's discoveries include 164 minor planets (numbered only).
- The Minor Planet Center ranks him 70th in the list of all-time, worldwide discoverers.
- Asteroid 22354 Sposetti has been named after him.
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