Luciano Tesi

Luciano Tesi (born in 1931) is an Italian astronomer, and director of the San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory[1] He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.[2].

In 1980, he founded the Amateur Group of Pistoiese Mountain. Later on, this resulted in the construction of the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory. As the director of the observatory, he has collaborated with many discoverers in following up near-earth objects and in finding minor planets, since 1994.[3].

Asteroids discovered

Asteroid Provisional designation Date of discovery Co-discoverer
7787 Annalaura 1994 WW 23 November 1994 Andrea Boattini
7801 Goretti 1996 GG2 12 April 1996 Andrea Boattini
8051 Pistoria 1997 PP4 13 August 1997 Gabriele Cattani
8558 Hack 1995 PC 1 August 1995 Andrea Boattini
9904 Mauratombelli 1997 OC1 29 July 1997 Andrea Boattini
10219 Penco 1997 UJ5 25 October 1997 Andrea Boattini
10371 Gigli 1995 DU3 27 February 1995 Andrea Boattini
10584 Ferrini 1996 GJ2 14 April 1996 Andrea Boattini
10642 Charmaine 1999 BF8 19 January 1999 Andrea Boattini
11102 Bertorighini 1995 SZ4 26 September 1995 N/A
11359 Piteglio 1998 BP24 27 January 1998 Vasco Cecchini
11595 Monsummano 1995 KN 23 May 1995 Andrea Boattini
11605 Ranfagni 1995 UP6 19 October 1995 Andrea Boattini
11622 Samuele 1996 RD4 9 September 1996 Andrea Boattini
11625 Francelinda 1996 UL1 20 October 1996 Gabriele Cattani
11667 Testa 1997 UB1 19 October 1997 Andrea Boattini
12399 Bartolini 1995 OD 19 July 1995 Andrea Boattini
12840 Paolaferrari 1997 GR5 6 April 1997 Gabriele Cattani
12927 Pinocchio 1999 SU9 30 September 1999 Maura Tombelli
39748 Guccini 1997 BJ3 28 January 1997 Gabriele Cattani

References

  1. ^ Carusi, Andrea (2004-10-01). "An interview to Maura Tombelli (amateur astronomer)". Tumbling Stone. http://spaceguard.esa.int/tumblingstone/issues/num23/eng/tombelli.html. Retrieved 2008-02-05. 
  2. ^ http://encyclopedia.codeboy.net/wikipedia/l/lu/luciano_tesi.html
  3. ^ D. Schmadel, Lutz (2003). Dictionary of minor planet names. Springer. pp. 828. ISBN 3-540-00238-3. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=RA1-PA828&d.