Giuseppe Forti


Giuseppe Forti 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 1977–2001.
He died at the age of 67 on July 2, 2007. 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.

List of discovered minor planets

10591 Caverni August 13, 1996
10928 Caprara January 25, 1998
11337 Sandro August 10, 1996
11621 Duccio August 15, 1996
12044 Fabbri March 29, 1997
12928 Nicolapozio September 30, 1999
14659 Gregoriana January 15, 1999
14953 Bevilacqua February 13, 1996
15004 Vallerani December 7, 1997
15006 Samcristoforetti February 27, 1998
January 1, 2000
15360 Moncalvo February 14, 1996
15418 Sergiospinelli February 27, 1998
17019 Aldo February 23, 1999
February 27, 1998
20200 Donbacky February 28, 1997
February 26, 1998