Fabrizio Bernardi

{| class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size: 0.9em;" |+ Minor planets discovered: 11  |- | 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 || |- | 112320 Danielegardiol || 19 June 2002 || |- | 126246 Losignore || 9 January 2002 || |- | 127415 Annacalderara || 11 July 2002 || |- | 127660 Mauroianeselli || 26 February 2003 || |- | 250370 Obertocitterio|| 12 October 2003 || |- | || 7 November 2005 || |- ! colspan=3 style="font-size: smaller; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; padding: 4px 12px;" | co-discovery with Andrea Boattini
co-discovery with Maura Tombelli
co-discovery with Roy Tucker and David Tholen
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 , 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.

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 (). Provided by Wikipedia
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