Valeria Mangano (b. 1971), a planetary scientist at the Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario in Torino, makes observations of the sodium exosphere of Mercury. She made a study of Europa and Titan and in 2007 received her doctorate from the University of Padua for her “Study of the Exospheres of Mercury”.
Discovered on 19-11-2003 in Campo Imperatore by CINEOS