Luciano Guerriero is an

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physicist. He earned his degree in physics at

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in 1952 and is now based in

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. Between 1988 and 1992 He headed the

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and has set up programs of collaboration with

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such as the

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mission to Saturn. There's an asteroid ( 15005 Guerriero) named after Luciano Guerriero. Luciano Guerriero has been P.I for the European project LEWIS for a landslide

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based on space data from SAR satellites.

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