Fabrizio Bernardi

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

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]

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]

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