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Pierre Antonini is a retired French mathematics professor and amateur astronomer who has discovered several minor planets and two supernovae at his private Observatoire de Bédoin (Bedoin Observatory; observatory code: 132) located at Bédoin, southeastern France. For many of his discoveries he used a 16-cm telescope or a 30-cm telescope.[2]
| see § List of discovered minor planets |
| SN 2000B | 17 January 2000 | Src Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine |
| SN 2001dd | 14 July 2001 | Src Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine |
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) credits him with the discovery of 35 numbered minor planets between 1997 and 1999. As of March 2016, the MPC ranks him 204th in the all-time, top-astronomer chart by number of discovered bodies.[1] Antonini is also credited with the discovery of the supernovae SN 2000B and SN 2001dd.[3][4] In January 2004, he co-discovered S/2003 (1089) 1, a minor planet moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid 1089 Tama.[5]
The 7-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid 12580 Antonini, discovered by Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in his honour.[2][6]
List of discovered minor planets
| 10925 Ventoux | 28 January 1998 | list |
| 11147 Delmas | 6 December 1997 | list |
| 11675 Billboyle | 15 February 1998 | list |
| 13411 OLRAP | 31 October 1999 | list |
| 14533 Roy | 24 August 1997 | list |
| 15899 Silvain | 3 September 1997 | list |
| 16892 Vaissière | 17 February 1998 | list |
| 20242 Sagot | 27 February 1998 | list |
| (23784) 1998 QW15 | 22 August 1998 | list |
| (24170) 1999 WB13 | 29 November 1999 | list |
| (26206) 1997 PJ4 | 11 August 1997 | list |
| (26961) 1997 OY1 | 29 July 1997 | list |
| (26979) 1997 UR9 | 29 October 1997 | list |
| (28021) 1998 BP6 | 22 January 1998 | list |
| (29677) 1998 XL17 | 15 December 1998 | list |
| (31223) 1998 BJ30 | 28 January 1998 | list |
| (31255) 1998 DL27 | 27 February 1998 | list |
| (33094) 1997 YG5 | 23 December 1997 | list |
| (35675) 1998 XK17 | 15 December 1998 | list |
| (37838) 1998 DF | 17 February 1998 | list |
| (39868) 1998 DM27 | 27 February 1998 | list |
| (40765) 1999 TF16 | 10 October 1999 | list |
| (41207) 1999 WK9 | 29 November 1999 | list |
| (46772) 1998 HD8 | 21 April 1998 | list |
| (52585) 1997 ON2 | 29 July 1997 | list |
| (58669) 1997 YF5 | 20 December 1997 | list |
| (65892) 1998 BH30 | 28 January 1998 | list |
| (66849) 1999 VM8 | 4 November 1999 | list |
| (74378) 1998 XH11 | 8 December 1998 | list |
| (79426) 1997 QZ | 24 August 1997 | list |
| (90983) 1997 XU5 | 6 December 1997 | list |
| (96343) 1997 RS1 | 3 September 1997 | list |
| (100546) 1997 EU32 | 13 March 1997 | list |
| (100977) 1998 QJ26 | 25 August 1998 | list |
| (155437) 1998 DE | 17 February 1998 | list |
| none was co-discovered | ||
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