17744 Jodiefoster
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17744 Jodiefoster is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on January 18, 1998 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
at Caussols
. It is named after the actress Jodie Foster
. The original citation from Minor Planet Circular 46683 reads :
(17744) Jodiefoster = 1998 BZ31
Jodie Foster (b. 1962) is an accomplished actress and film director. For most astronomers she will always be Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway in Robert Zemeckis' movie Contact
, based on the novel by the same name
written by the late Carl Sagan
.
OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
The OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey was a European scientific project to search for asteroids and comets. This project was the joint work of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in France and the Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Germany...
at Caussols
Caussols
Caussols is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France, It is known for the CERGA Observatory on the plateau de Calern.-Demographics:-References:*...
. It is named after the actress Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
. The original citation from Minor Planet Circular 46683 reads :
(17744) Jodiefoster = 1998 BZ31
Jodie Foster (b. 1962) is an accomplished actress and film director. For most astronomers she will always be Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway in Robert Zemeckis' movie Contact
Contact (film)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact....
, based on the novel by the same name
Contact (novel)
Contact is a science fiction novel written by Carl Sagan and published in 1985. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced, extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on the 1985 U.S. bestseller list....
written by the late Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...
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