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 |