Piero Sicoli Explained

Minor planets discovered: 43 

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Piero Sicoli (born 1954) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, observing at the Italian Sormano Astronomical Observatory. As the observatory's coordinator, he is responsible for close encounters computation of near-Earth objects (NEOs), orbit computations, and identification of asteroids (about one thousand, included 17 NEOs). The Observatory's focus is the examination and tracking of NEOs in Solar System.

The Nysa asteroid 7866 Sicoli, discovered by Edward Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station in 1982, is named in his honor.

List of discovered minor planets

6882 Sormano	5 February 1995	 
8106 Carpino	23 December 1994	 
8208 Volta	28 February 1995	 
8209 Toscanelli	28 February 1995	 
8935 Beccaria	11 January 1997	 
9111 Matarazzo	28 January 1997	 
9115 Battisti	27 February 1997	 
10387 Bepicolombo	18 October 1996	 
11145 Emanuelli	29 August 1997	 
11652 Johnbrownlee	7 February 1997	 

11970 Palitzsch	4 October 1994	 
12410 Donald Duck	26 September 1995	 
	17 October 1995	 
14024 Procol Harum	9 September 1994	 
14103 Manzoni	1 October 1997	 
15379 Alefranz	29 August 1997	 
16749 Vospini	16 August 1996	 
	27 October 1995	 
18556 Battiato	7 February 1997	 
19398 Creedence	2 March 1998	 

22500 Grazianoventre	26 July 1997	 
26197 Bormio	31 March 1997	 
	19 February 1998	 
32931 Ferioli	26 September 1995	 
32944 Gussalli	19 November 1995	 
	25 October 1997	 
35316 Monella	11 January 1997	 
35334 Yarkovsky	31 March 1997	 
39653 Carnera	17 October 1995	 
43956 Elidoro	7 February 1997	 

43957 Invernizzi	7 February 1997	 
43993 Mariola	26 July 1997	 
	30 January 1997	 
48640 Eziobosso	17 October 1995	 
48643 Allen-Beach	20 October 1995	 
55810 Fabiofazio	4 October 1994	 
59087 Maccacaro	15 November 1998	 
	28 January 1998	 
69961 Millosevich	15 November 1998	 
	15 November 1998	 

	15 February 1996	 
	17 October 1995	 
	15 September 1998	 
Co-discovery made with: V. Giuliani M. Cavagna P. Ghezzi F. Manca P. Chiavenna A. Testa

Publications

• "The orbit of (944) Hidalgo", British Astron. Assoc. Jnl., (1990, M. Cavagna, P. Sicoli)
• "Future Earth Approaches of (4179) Toutatis", Minor Planet Bulletin, (1992, M. Cavagna, P. Sicoli)
• "Earth Close Approaches of Minor Planet (7482) 1994 PC1", Minor Planet Bulletin, (1997, P. Sicoli)
• "Asteroid and Planet Close Encounters", Minor Planet Bulletin, (1999, F. Manca, P. Sicoli)
• "Monitoring Hazardous Objects", Proceedings of the Third Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, (2000, F. Manca, P. Sicoli)
• "Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of Ceres", Asteroids III, (2002, G. Fodera' Serio, A. Manara, P. Sicoli)
• "Planetary Close Encounters", Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, (2002, F. Manca, P. Sicoli)
• "Killed by a meteorite?", Mercury, (2003, P. Sicoli, C.J. Cunningham)
• "Identification of asteroids and comets: methods and results", Proceedings of the X National Conference on Planetary Science. (2011, F. Manca, P. Sicoli, and A. Testa)