Ante Radonić (born May 2, 1951) is a Croatian astronomer and popularizer of astronomy, who writes for the weekly radio show '' Andromeda''.

Background

Radonić was born in Korčula, Croatia, where he finished primary school and high school. Between 1972 and 2017, he worked in the

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as a chairman of

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with astronautics. His major activity is popularization of astronomy and astronautics. He also has regular lectures in the planetarium for school groups and public lectures for citizens.

Career

He has written over 300 articles for

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magazines, weekly papers, and daily newspapers. But he has mostly written for a magazine of

stardom called ''Čovjek i svemir'' (English "Man and Universe"), a magazine of Croatia's nature society ''Priroda'' (English "Nature"), and daily newspapers '' Vjesnik'' and '' Večernji list''. Professor Ante Radonić has given over 500 public lectures about astronomy, astronautics and rocket science. He has given lectures across Croatia in

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. Ante Radonić has had over 300 appearances on special shows on radio and over 50 appearances on TV shows. He is a permanent co-writer of a weekly show about the Universe called '' Andromeda'' (since 1996) on the second Croatian Radio station and can be heard every Tuesday at 20:00 - 22:00.

Honors

Asteroid 176981 Anteradonic, discovered by astronomers with the

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in 2002, was named in his honor. The official was published by IAU's

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on 7 February 2022.

References

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