Jorge E. Bobone was an Argentinian

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 astronomer

Astronomer

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He performed his work at the Observatorio Nacional Argentino in Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...

, established in the 1870s by Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Benjamin Apthorp Gould

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 and now belonging to the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Between 1928 and 1954 he published multiple papers in the Astronomical Journal and the Astronomische Nachrichten. The majority of his papers were regarding photographic observations of comet

Comet

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s, the ephemerides of Jupiter VI

Himalia (moon)

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, and some asteroid

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The crater Bobone

Bobone (crater)

Bobone is an old, heavily eroded crater formation that lies on the far side of the Moon. Little remains of the original crater formation, leaving only a bowl-shaped depression in the surface that is pock-marked by tiny craterlets. It is attached to the southwest rim of the large satellite crater...

 on the Moon

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...

 and the asteroid

Asteroid

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 2507 Bobone

2507 Bobone

2507 Bobone is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 18, 1976 by Felix Aguilar Observatory at El Leoncito.- External links :*...

were named after him.