9115 Battisti
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9115 Battisti is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on February 27, 1997 by P. Sicoli and F. Manca at Sormano
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The asteroid is named in memory of Lucio Battisti
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singer and songwriter considered to be one of the best and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on February 27, 1997 by P. Sicoli and F. Manca at Sormano
Sormano
Sormano is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km north of Milan and about 15 km northeast of Como....
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The asteroid is named in memory of Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti was an Italian singer-songwriter . He is considered to be one of the best-known and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history....
, italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
singer and songwriter considered to be one of the best and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history.