Marco Cavagna (1958 – August 9, 2005) was an Italian amateur astronomer.
[1] In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of Italy's leading observers of comets and national coordinator during the International Halley Watch in 1986.
[2] Cavagna was also a lecturer at the planetarium of Milan, co-founder of the Sormano Observatory, and a consultant for IAU's commission XX (Positions & motions of minor planets, comets and satellites).
[2] The inner main-belt asteroid 10149 Cavagna, discovered by astronomers Maura Tombelli and Andrea Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory, was named after him in 1999 (M.P.C.
[3][4] Cavagna was married to amateur astronomer Emanuela Galliani and they are jointly credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of asteroid (23571) Zuaboni on 1 January 1995.