Fabrizio Bernardi
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.
| 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, and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered minor planets during 2002–2005, including (280244) 2002 WP11, 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).