Vincenzo Silvano Casulli

Minor planets discovered: 194 [1]
see § List of discovered minor planets

Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, usually known as Silvano Casulli (25 August 1944 – 24 July 2018[2]) was an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at his Vallemare di Borbona Observatory (A55) in Lazio.

He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 192 minor planets.[1] In 1985 he served on a team involved in using the Hubble Space Telescope in a study that focused on Transition Comets—UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids. He was the first amateur astronomer to obtain precise astronometric positions of minor planets using a CCD camera. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.

In 1997, the inner main-belt asteroid and member of the Flora family, 7132 Casulli, was named by astronomer Antonio Vagnozzi in his honor (M.P.C. 30800).[3][4]

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  2. ^ Lutto per la scomparsa del Dr. Silvano Casulli, era cittadino onorario di Cervara di Roma (in Italian)
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