It is with deep sadness that we share with you the loss of our dear friend Giovanni Sostero. Giovanni was a great person, a great astronomer and above all the best of friends!
A tribute to Giovanni on Universe Today website and on the Italian astronomy magazine Coelum (Page 1 & Page 2).
By clicking here you can hear the last audio interview (in Italian) by Giovanni to the "Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica" (National Institute for Astrophysics), or INAF in occasion of our discovery of fragmentation of comet 168P on October 2012.
A piece in memory of Giovanni on the February 2013 issue of "The Astronomer" magazine. (click on the image below for a bigger version)
A piece in memory of Giovanni on the February 2013 issue of "The Astronomer" magazine. (click on the image below for a bigger version)
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One of the discoverers of the Nova in M31. Such a shame and very saddened by the loss.
[http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/07500/07516.html]
I am so sorry to hear of your dear friend Giovanni, my heartfelt sympathy goes to his family, and you's, his dear friend's, I am so sorry.
Lynn
R.I.P.
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