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]
| 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 |
| 95020 Nencini | 10 January 2002 | MPC |
| 95951 Ernestopalomba | 18 August 2003 | MPC |
| 99942 Apophis | 19 June 2004 | MPC [C] |
| 250370 Obertocitterio | 12 October 2003 | MPC |
| (413666) 2005 VJ119 | 7 November 2005 | MPC |
| A co-discovery with Andrea Boattini B co-discovery with Maura Tombelli C co-discovery with Roy Tucker and David Tholen | ||
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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) 2002 WP11, 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 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]
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]