Elia Filippo Francesco Giuseppe Maria Millosevich (5 September 1848 inVenice,Austrian Empire – 5 December 1919 inRome) was an Italianastronomer.^[2] He specialized in calculating theorbits ofcomets andasteroids, in particular433 Eros.

He first studied at theUniversity of Padua. His first papers, on the then-forthcoming 1874 and 1882transits of Venus, attracted attention and got him the position of professor of nautical astronomy at the Reale Istituto di Marina Mercantile a Venezia (Venice Royal Institute of the Merchant Navy). In 1879, he was offered the position of deputy director of the Osservatorio del Collegio Romano (Observatory of the Collegio Romano), associated with the Ufficio Centrale di Meteorologia (Central Institute of Meteorology) in Rome, and from 1902 (followingPietro Tacchini's resignation) until his death, he was its director.

For the calculation of the orbit of Eros, in 1898 and 1904 he was awarded the Prize for Astronomy (Premio per l’Astronomia) of the ItalianAccademia dei Lincei. In 1911, he was awarded the Pontécoulant Prize (Prix Gustave de Pontécoulant) of the FrenchAcadémie des sciences de Paris. He published over 450 smaller and larger works, and a large number of single observations of planets and comets.

In 2004, the main-belt asteroid69961 Millosevich, discovered by the Italian astronomersPiero Sicoli andFrancesco Manca, was named in his memory.^[3] The naming citation was published on July 13, 2004 (M.P.C. 52326).^[4]

• 1848 births
• 1919 deaths
• Discoverers of asteroids
• 19th-century Italian astronomers
• 20th-century Italian astronomers

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