Asteroid Asteroid Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones... s discovered: 85
6339 Giliberti 6339 Giliberti 6339 Giliberti is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1993 by Casulli, V. S. at Colleverde.- External links :*...	September 20, 1993
6530 Adry 6530 Adry 6530 Adry is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 12, 1994 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	April 12, 1994
6877 Giada 6877 Giada 6877 Giada is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1994 by Casulli, V. S., Valentini, S. at Colleverde.- External links :*...	October 10, 1994
6929 Misto 6929 Misto 6929 Misto is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 31, 1994 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	October 31, 1994
7600 Vacchi 7600 Vacchi 7600 Vacchi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1994 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde.- External links :*...	September 9, 1994
7665 Putignano 7665 Putignano 7665 Putignano is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1994 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	October 11, 1994
7961 Ercolepoli 7961 Ercolepoli 7961 Ercolepoli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1994 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	October 10, 1994
8569 Mameli 8569 Mameli 8569 Mameli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 1, 1996 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	October 1, 1996
8716 Ginestra 8716 Ginestra 8716 Ginestra is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1995 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	September 23, 1995
8742 Bonazzoli 8742 Bonazzoli 8742 Bonazzoli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1998 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	February 14, 1998
9121 Stefanovalentini 9121 Stefanovalentini Asteroid 9121 Stefanovalentini was discovered on 24 February 1998 by Silvano Casulli at the Colleverde Observatory in Italy. It is a main belt asteroid. It is named in honor of Italian amateur astronomer Stefano Valentini....	February 24, 1998
10386 Romulus 10386 Romulus 10386 Romulus is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1996 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	October 12, 1996
11142 Facchini 11142 Facchini 11142 Facchini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 7, 1997 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	January 7, 1997
(11328) 1995 UL	October 19, 1995
(11578) 1994 EB	March 4, 1994
12384 Luigimartella 12384 Luigimartella 12384 Luigimartella is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1994 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	October 10, 1994
(13197) 1997 DC	February 17, 1997
13653 Priscus 13653 Priscus 13653 Priscus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 9, 1997 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	February 9, 1997
13684 Borbona 13684 Borbona 13684 Borbona is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1997 by V. S. Casulli at the Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	August 27, 1997
14088 Ancus 14088 Ancus 14088 Ancus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 3, 1997 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	May 3, 1997
	February 28, 1995
(15007) 1998 NA	July 5, 1998
(15353) 1994 WA	November 22, 1994
15854 Numa 15854 Numa 15854 Numa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1996 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	February 15, 1996
15869 Tullius 15869 Tullius 15869 Tullius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8, 1996 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	August 8, 1996
	October 30, 1996
(17556) 1993 WB	November 16, 1993
	October 17, 1996
(18169) 2000 QF	August 20, 2000
	September 14, 1996
18596 Superbus 18596 Superbus 18596 Superbus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1998 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	January 21, 1998
	November 28, 1994
21311 Servius 21311 Servius 21311 Servius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 4, 1996 by V. S. Casulli at Colleverde di Guidonia.- External links :*...	December 4, 1996
	November 6, 1994
	August 22, 1995
(24946) 1997 NQ	July 1, 1997
	December 22, 1998
(29347) 1995 EU	March 5, 1995
(29361) 1996 CY	February 9, 1996
	March 31, 1997
	August 29, 1997
	October 26, 1997
	April 20, 1998
	January 21, 1999
	February 9, 1994
(32911) 1994 VX	November 4, 1994
	November 24, 1995
	December 4, 1996
(33002) 1997 DM	February 17, 1997
(35295) 1996 VM	November 1, 1996
(37627) 1993 TD	October 11, 1993
(37640) 1993 WF	November 20, 1993
(37683) 1995 KK	May 19, 1995
(37735) 1996 VL	November 1, 1996
	August 27, 1998
	March 30, 1997
(43935) 1996 TF	October 1, 1996
	September 18, 1998
	September 29, 1996
	August 20, 2001
(52558) 1997 FR	March 27, 1997
	September 19, 1998
	December 7, 1998
	January 25, 1996
	October 19, 1996
(58498) 1996 VF	November 2, 1996
	October 26, 1995
	October 30, 1996
	October 17, 1996
	February 6, 1997
	January 7, 1997
	March 10, 1997
	November 27, 1999
	October 12, 2001
	January 12, 1994
	February 26, 1998
(90806) 1995 AE	January 4, 1995
93061 Barbagallo 93061 Barbagallo 93061 Barbagallo is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vincenzo Silvano Casulli and Ermes Colombini on September 23, 2000. Its provisional designation was 2000 SX20. It was named after Mariano Barbagallo, an Italian colleague and friend of Colombini....	September 23, 2000
	February 28, 1995
	September 12, 1996
(100456) 1996 TH	October 2, 1996
(100731) 1998 DO	February 18, 1998
	July 12, 2004
(120575) 1995 QD	August 17, 1995
	October 30, 1996

Vincenzo Silvano Casulli (born 1944; usually known as Silvano Casulli) is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

.

In 1985 he served on a team involved in using the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4 meter aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared...

 in a study that focused on Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids

Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids

Hubble search for transition comets was a study involving amateur astronomers and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope...

.

Asteroids

He was the first amateur astronomer

Amateur astronomy

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the night sky , and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars...

 to obtain precise astronometric positions of minor planets using a CCD camera. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s, and minor planet 7132 Casulli

7132 Casulli

7132 Casulli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 17, 1993 by Vagnozzi, A. at Stroncone.- External links :*...

 is named in his honor.

9121 Stefanovalentini

Casulli discovered Asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 9121 Stefanovalentini

9121 Stefanovalentini

Asteroid 9121 Stefanovalentini was discovered on 24 February 1998 by Silvano Casulli at the Colleverde Observatory in Italy. It is a main belt asteroid. It is named in honor of Italian amateur astronomer Stefano Valentini....

 on 24 February 1998 at the Colleverde Observatory in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. It is a main belt asteroid named in honour of amateur astronomer

Amateur astronomy

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the night sky , and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars...

 Stefano Valentini

Stefano Valentini

Stefano Valentini, born in 1955 in Rome, Italy, is an Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer.He is known for his freewares WinAstrometry and waEphemeris, a minor planets ephemeris...

.

93061 Barbagallo

Casulli and Ermes Colombini discovered asteroid 93061 Barbagallo

93061 Barbagallo

93061 Barbagallo is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vincenzo Silvano Casulli and Ermes Colombini on September 23, 2000. Its provisional designation was 2000 SX20. It was named after Mariano Barbagallo, an Italian colleague and friend of Colombini....

on September 23, 2000. Its provisional designation was 2000 SX20. It was named after Mariano Barbagallo, an Italian colleague and friend of Colombini.

External links

• Web page on the naming of asteroid 7132 Casulli (with image of Silvano Casulli)
• Citation for (93061)