+ Minor planets discovered: 28 65001 Teodorescu 9 January 2002 78123 Dimare 10 July 2002 78309 Alessielisa 5 August 2002 78453 Bullock 3 September 2002 84118 Bracalicioci 3 September 2002 84120 Antonacci 4 September 2002 84339 Francescaballi 2 October 2002 90278 Caprese 24 February 2003 95020 Nencini 10 January 2002 95951 Ernestopalomba 18 August 2003 99942 Apophis 19 June 2004 111571 Bebevio 11 January 2002 113683 Robertoornella 2 October 2002 113684 Giannagianni 2 October 2002 112320 Danielegardiol 19 June 2002 112337 Francescaguerra 10 July 2002 112492 Annacipriani 19 June 2002 113208 Lea 5 September 2002 114735 Irenemagni 24 April 2003 120098 Telmopievani 10 March 2003 126246 Losignore 9 January 2002 127415 Annacalderara 2 August 2002 127660 Mauroianeselli 26 February 2003 250370 Obertocitterio 12 October 2003 280244 Ati 27 November 2002 7 November 2005 5 August 2002 6 August 2002 120097 Janniksinner 10 March 2003 co-discovery with Andrea Boattini co-discovery with Maura Tombelli co-discovery with Roy Tucker and David Tholen co-discovery with Mario Di Martino co-discovery with Maura Tombelli

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.

He is a member of the IAU, and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered minor planets during 2002–2005, including 280244 Ati, another near-Earth object a member of the Amor group of asteroids, and , a trans-Neptunian object. 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. To his present fiancée, Irene Magni, he named the asteroid 114735 Irenemagni..

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.NASA retrieved 12:31 11.10.11 While at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, he discovered 268P/Bernardi, a Jupiter family comet.

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 ().

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. In press. Discovery of the heavily obscured Supernova SN2002CV. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.393, p.L21-L24 ESO 2002 retrieved 13:18 11.10.11homepage retrieved 13:03 11.10.11

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

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

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

See also

Rosetta mission

References