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Gonzalo Tancredi
Uruguayan astronomer (born 1963)
Gonzalo Tancredi (born 8 March 1963) is an Uruguayan astronomer and full professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay.[1] He is an active member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and investigator at Los Molinos Observatory.[2]
His 2010 evaluation of potential dwarf planets[3] was considered by the IAU, though never acted on. The Themistian asteroid 5088 Tancredi has been named after him.[4]