Ante Radonić

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Ante Radonić
Born1951
Korčula, Croatia
NationalityCroatian
Occupationastronomer

Ante Radonić (born 1951) is a Croatian astronomer and popularizer of astronomy, who writes for the weekly radio show Andromeda.[1]

Background[]

Radonić was born in Korčula, Croatia, where he finished primary school and high school. Between 1972 and 2017, he worked in the Technical Museum in Zagreb as a chairman of planetarium with astronautics.[2][3][4][5] 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.[6]

Career[]

He has written over 300 articles for popular science magazines, weekly papers, and daily newspapers. But he has mostly written for a magazine of Zagreb 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.[6]

Professor Ante Radonić has given over 500 public lectures about astronomy, astronautics and rocket science. He has given lectures across Croatia in Zagreb, Karlovac, Rijeka, Pula, Zadar, Obrovac, Šibenik, , Ploče, Korčula, Čakovec, Koprivnica, Kutina, Križevci, Slavonski Brod, Bjelovar, Pitomača, Virovitica and Vinkovci.[6]

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[7] and can be heard every Tuesday at 20:30 - 22:30.[8]

Honors[]

Asteroid 176981 Anteradonic, discovered by astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in 2002, was named in his honor.[1] The official naming citation was published by IAU's WGSBN on 7 February 2022.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "176981 Anteradonic". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Radonić: Možemo očekivati baze na Marsu, ali pravo preseljenje nije realno". Croatian Radiotelevision. Retrieved 2010-12-27. Ante Radonić, astronom, do umirovljenja (2017.) radio je u Tehničkom muzeju u Zagrebu na radnom mjestu voditelja planetarija s astronautikom.
  3. ^ "Veliki prasak uskoro u Studentskom centru". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 2009-11-26. Retrieved 2010-12-27. Voditelj planetarija Tehničkog muzeja, Ante Radonić, održat će predavanja o svemirskim misijama te o bojama dalekog svemira
  4. ^ "Na "Venera, Mars i Saturn s krova MSU-a" pozvani ste u četvrtak". Večernji list (in Croatian). 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-12-27. Ante Radonić, voditelj planetarija Tehničkog muzeja iz Zagreba, na krovu MSU-a uputit će posjetitelje kako da promatraju ljetno nebo i objasniti što se vidi.
  5. ^ "Svemirskim taksijem do gigantske postaje" (PDF). Vjesnik (in Croatian). 2003-02-03. Retrieved 2010-12-27.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ a b c "Ante Radonić: Istraživanje Marsa / O autoru: Tko je Ante Radonić?" (in Croatian). Festival Znanosti 2003. 2003-05-15. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  7. ^ HR2 Archived June 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Croatian Radiotelevision
  8. ^ "Gostovanje Ante Radonića i radio-emisije Andromeda" (in Croatian). Akademsko Astronomsko Društvo - Rijeka. 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  9. ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022. (Bulletin #15)
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