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Giuseppe Forti (December 21, 1939 β July 2, 2007) was an Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids.
Forti was a trained solar physicist, and worked at Harvard's Radio Meteor Project and later at the Arcetri Observatory, in Florence, Italy. He was a member of the third IAU Division: Planetary Systems Sciences. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 49 numbered minor planets during 1977β2001.
He died at the age of 67 on July 2, 2007.[1] The main-belt asteroid 6876 Beppeforti, discovered by his colleges Andrea Boattini and Maura Tombelli at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory in 1994, was named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 3 May 1996 .
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with M. Tombelli with A. Boattini with L. Tesi |