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Alessandro Morbidelli (astronomer)

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Alessandro Morbidelli is an Italian astronomer and planetary scientist currently employed by the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice.

Morbidelli specializes in solar system dynamics, especially planetary formation and migration and the structure of the asteroid and Kuiper belts.

In 2000, he received the Urey Prize from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.