Fabrizio Bernardi

Fabrizio Bernardi (born 1972) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, best known for the co-discovery of the near-Earth and potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis.^[2]

Minor planets discovered: 11^[1]

65001 Teodorescu	9 January 2002	MPC [A]
78123 Dimare	10 July 2002	MPC [A]
78309 Alessielisa	5 August 2002	MPC
78453 Bullock	3 September 2002	MPC
84118 Bracalicioci	3 September 2002	MPC
84120 Antonacci	4 September 2002	MPC [B]
84339 Francescaballi	2 October 2002	MPC
90278 Caprese	24 February 2003	IAU [D]
95020 Nencini	10 January 2002	MPC
95951 Ernestopalomba	18 August 2003	MPC
99942 Apophis	19 June 2004	MPC [C]
111571 Bebevio	11 January 2002	IAU [B]
113683 Robertoornella	2 October 2002	IAU [B]
113684 Giannagianni	2 October 2002	IAU [B]
112320 Danielegardiol	19 June 2002	IAU [D]
112337 Francescaguerra	10 July 2002	IAU
112492 Annacipriani	19 June 2002	IAU
113208 Lea	5 September 2002	IAU
114735 Irenemagni	24 April 2003	IAU
120098 Telmopievani	10 March 2003	IAU [B]
126246 Losignore	9 January 2002	IAU
127415 Annacalderara	2 August 2002	IAU [B]
127660 Mauroianeselli	26 February 2003	IAU
250370 Obertocitterio	12 October 2003	MPC
280244 Ati	27 November 2002	IAU [B]
(413666) 2005 VJ119	7 November 2005	MPC
(624220) 2002 PS34	5 August 2002	JPL [F]
(624324) 2002 RG251	6 August 2002	JPL[F]
A co-discovery with Andrea Boattini B co-discovery with Maura Tombelli C co-discovery with Roy Tucker and David Tholen D co-discovery with Mario Di Martino

He is a member of the IAU,^[3] and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered minor planets during 2002–2005,^[1] including 280244 Ati, another near-Earth object a member of the Amor group of asteroids, and (413666) 2005 VJ119, a trans-Neptunian object.^[4] In 2002, he discovered the outer main-belt asteroid 65001 Teodorescu at Campo Imperatore station, Gran Sasso, Italy, and named it after his former wife, the Romanian astronomer Ana Teodorescu.^[5]

He was involved together with colleagues Marco Micheli and David Tholen, with observations of the Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 during his stay at the University of Hawaii observatory.^[6] While at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, he discovered 268P/Bernardi, a Jupiter family comet.^[7][8]

The main-belt asteroid 27983 Bernardi, discovered by astronomers Andrea Boattini and Maura Tombelli at Cima Ekar, was named in his honor on 9 November 2003 (M.P.C. 50252).^[2][9]

Publications

ACM2002 Proceedings – Berlin: The Campo Imperatore Near Earth Objects Survey (CINEOS): Andrea Boattini, Germano D’Abramo, Giovanni B. Valsecchi, Andrea Carusi, Andrea Di Paola, Fabrizio Bernardi, Robert Jedicke, Alan W. Harris, Elisabetta Dotto and Fiore De Luise, et al.^[10] In press. Discovery of the heavily obscured Supernova SN2002CV. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.393, p.L21-L24^[11][12]

Proceedings of the Planetologia Italiana Workshop – Bormio, Italy, 20–26 January 2001: CINEOS – Campo Imperatore Near Earth Objects Survey Expected background of asteroids and stars for the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission^[12]

Asteroid background for the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission, Poster, Division for Planetary Sciences 2001, New Orleans, USA^[12]

ESTEC Internal report, September 2000: Image simulation of the inner coma environment for the Wide Angle Camera of the OSIRIS experiment^[12]

See also

• List of minor planet discoverers § F. Bernardi
• Meanings of minor planet names: 65001–66000 § 001
• Rosetta mission