Fabrizio Bernardi (born April 9, 1972, in Pomezia near Rome, Italy) is an Italianastronomer. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ...
He co-discovered the asteroid99942 Apophis, which will approach the Earth very closely on April 13, 2029. He graduated in Padua in 1999 with a dissertation about "Studies of Asteroids with the Wide Angle Camera of Rosetta". He defended the PhD thesis on April the 10th,2003 about "The CINEOS project: Discoveries of Near Earth Objects". On June the 7th 2003 he married Ana Maria Teodorescu. At present, he's working at the University of Hawaii with Dave Tholen. Jump to: navigation, search An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Close approach of Apophis on April 13, 2029 The white bar indicates uncertainty in the range of positions 99942 Apophis (previously better known by its provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a Near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a relatively... Jump to: navigation, search Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... 2029 is a Common year starting on Monday. ... Jean Charlots mural called Commencement is featured at Bachman Hall, the administrative center of the University of Hawai`i System. ...
Last Thursday, NASA announced that asteroid 2004 MN4, discovered in June by University of Hawaii astronomers David Tholen and FabrizioBernardi, and Roy Tucker of the University of Arizona, reached the highest level on the hazard scale of any asteroid found to date.
It will be built on Haleakala or on Mauna Kea, where it would be placed within the footprint of the existing UH 88-inch telescope.
This will drastically increase the rate at which near-Earth asteroids are discovered and thus provide a much more accurate assessment of whether Earth is threatened by a future impact.
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