Andrea Boattini
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Andrea Boattini (born 16 September 1969) is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.<ref name="springer" />
Career
After developing a growing interest in minor planets, he graduated in 1996 from the University of Bologna with a thesis on near-Earth objects (NEOs). He is involved in various projects related to NEO follow-up and search programs, with special interest in the NEO class known as Atens.<ref name="springer" />
He currently works at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona after many years spent at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, National Research Council) and the Astronomical Observatory in Rome. He worked for the Catalina Sky Survey project from 2007 to 2014, in Tucson, Arizona (USA). Meanwhile, he discovered the active comets C/2007 W1 (Boattini), C/2008 J1 (Boattini), C/2008 S3 (Boattini), C/2009 P2 (Boattini), C/2009 W2 (Boattini), C/2010 F1 (Boattini), C/2010 G1 (Boattini) as well as the most distant discovery of an inbound active comet, C/2010 U3 (Boattini).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He also accidentally recovered 206P/Barnard-Boattini from the Mount Lemmon Survey (also see lost comet).
Honors
Asteroid 8925 Boattini is named in his honour.<ref name="springer" /> The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) on 2 February 1999 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />
List of discovered minor planets
Andrea Boattini is credited by the MPC with the discovery of hundreds of minor planets made between 1977 (see following comment) and 2006.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
The minor planet Template:Mp, discovered at the Siding Spring Observatory on 17 September 1977, is credited by the MPC to Andrea Boattini and his older co-discoverer Giuseppe Forti (born 1939).<ref name="MPC-48381" /> However Boattini did not co-discover this asteroid on the day after his 8th birthday in 1977, but rather recovered the body from the original observations, referenced as MPS 18832,<ref name="MPC-48381" /> which were published by the MPC on 13 October 2000.<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" /> He named the asteroids 12848 Agostino and 14973 Rossirosina, in honor of his father Agostino (born 1932) and his mother, Rosina Rossi Boattini (born 1934).<ref name="springer-Agostino" /><ref name="springer-Rossirosina" />
In addition to the officially discovered (i.e. numbered) minor planets, near-Earth asteroids Template:Mpl and Template:Mpl, first observed by Boattini in 2007 and 2012, respectively. His co-discoverers are: Template:Note label M. Tombelli, Template:Note label V. Goretti, Template:Note label A. Di Paola, Template:Note label L. Tesi, Template:Note label G. Forti, Template:Note label G. D'Abramo, Template:Note label F. Pedichini, Template:Note label A. Caronia, Template:Note label A. Di Clemente, Template:Note label F. Bernardi, Template:Note label V. Cecchini, Template:Note label H. Scholl, Template:Note label M. Mazzucato.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
List of discovered comets
Andrea Boattini has also discovered or re-discovered 25 comets (see table).
| List of comets discovered by Andrea Boattini | |||
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| Designation | Discovery date | Source | Note |
| C/2007 W1 (Boattini) | 20 November 2007 | MPEC 2007-W63<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| C/2008 J1 (Boattini) | 2 May 2008 | MPEC 2008-J17<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| P/2008 O3 (Boattini) | 29 July 2008 | MPEC 2008-P05<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Boattini 1 |
| C/2008 S3 (Boattini) | 29 September 2008 | MPEC 2008-S96<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 340P/Boattini | 1 October 2008 | MPEC 2008-T30<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Boattini 2 |
| 206P/Barnard–Boattini | 7 October 2008 | MPEC 2008-T89<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | originally discovered by Edward Barnard in 1892 |
| 387P/Boattini | 22 December 2008 | MPEC 2008-Y53<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Boattini 3 |
| P/2009 B1 (Boattini) | 21 January 2009 | MPEC 2009-B46<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Boattini 4 |
| C/2009 P2 (Boattini) | 15 August 2009 | MPEC 2009-Q14<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 398P/Boattini | 26 August 2009 | MPEC 2009-Q84<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Boattini 5 |
| C/2009 W2 (Boattini) | 21 November 2009 | MPEC 2009-W103<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| C/2010 F1 (Boattini) | 17 March 2010 | MPEC 2010-F32<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| C/2010 G1 (Boattini) | 5 April 2010 | MPEC 2010-G27<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| C/2010 J1 (Boattini) | 6 May 2010 | MPEC 2010-J32<ref>Template:Cite web
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| 510P/Boattini | 17 October 2010 | MPEC 2010-U18<ref>MPEC 2010-U18 : COMET P/2010 U1 (BOATTINI)</ref> | Boattini 6 |
| C/2010 U3 (Boattini) | 31 October 2010 | MPEC 2010-V55<ref>MPEC 2010-V55 : COMET C/2010 U3 (BOATTINI))</ref> | |
| Template:Mp (Spacewatch–Boattini) | 28 May 2011 | MPEC 2011-K56<ref>MPEC 2011-K56 : COMET P/2011 JB15 (SPACEWATCH-BOATTINI)</ref> | |
| C/2011 L6 (Boattini) | 28 May 2011 | MPEC 2011-K56<ref>MPEC 2011-L42 : COMET C/2011 L6 (BOATTINI)</ref> | |
| P/2011 V1 (Boattini) | 22 October 2011 | MPEC 2011-V13<ref>MPEC 2011-V13 : COMET P/2011 V1 (BOATTINI)</ref> | Boattini 7 |
| P/2011 Y2 (Boattini) | 24 December 2011 | MPEC 2011-Y49<ref>MPEC 2011-Y49 : COMET P/2011 Y2 (BOATTINI)</ref> | Boattini 8 |
| C/2011 Y3 (Boattini) | 25 December 2011 | MPEC 2011-Y50<ref>MPEC 2011-Y50 : COMET C/2011 Y3 (BOATTINI)</ref> | Boattini 9 |
| C/2013 F1 (Boattini) | 23 March 2013 | MPEC 2013-F46<ref>M.P.E.C. 2013-F46 : COMET C/2013 F1 (BOATTINI)</ref> | |
| C/2013 H2 (Boattini) | 22 April 2013 | MPEC 2013-H45<ref>MPEC 2013-H45 : COMET C/2013 H2 (BOATTINI)</ref> | |
| C/2013 J5 (Boattini) | 13 May 2013 | MPEC 2013-K25<ref>MPEC 2013-K25 : COMET C/2013 J5 (BOATTINI))</ref> | |
| C/2013 V1 (Boattini) | 4 November 2013 | MPEC 2013-V32<ref>MPEC 2013-V32 : COMET C/2013 V1 (BOATTINI)</ref> | |