# Fabrizio Bernardi

Minor planets discovered: 11 :
| 65001 Teodorescu | 9 January 2002 | MPC |
| 78123 Dimare | 10 July 2002 | MPC |
| 78309 Alessielisa | 5 August 2002 | MPC |
| 78453 Bullock | 3 September 2002 | MPC |
| 84118 Bracalicioci | 3 September 2002 | MPC |
| 84120 Antonacci | 4 September 2002 | MPC |
| 84339 Francescaballi | 2 October 2002 | MPC |
| 90278 Caprese | 24 February 2003 | IAU |
| 95020 Nencini | 10 January 2002 | MPC |
| 95951 Ernestopalomba | 18 August 2003 | MPC |
| 99942 Apophis | 19 June 2004 | MPC |
| 111571 Bebevio | 11 January 2002 | IAU |
| 113683 Robertoornella | 2 October 2002 | IAU |
| 113684 Giannagianni | 2 October 2002 | IAU |
| 112320 Danielegardiol | 19 June 2002 | IAU |
| 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 |
| 126246 Losignore | 9 January 2002 | IAU |
| 127415 Annacalderara | 2 August 2002 | IAU |
| 127660 Mauroianeselli | 26 February 2003 | IAU |
| 250370 Obertocitterio | 12 October 2003 | MPC |
| 280244 Ati | 27 November 2002 | IAU |
| (413666) 2005 VJ119 | 7 November 2005 | MPC |
| (624220) 2002 PS34 | 5 August 2002 | JPL |
| (624324) 2002 RG251 | 6 August 2002 | JPL |
| $^A$ 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.
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 (413666) 2005 VJ119, 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.
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. 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 (M.P.C. 50252).

## 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
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