Pierre Antonini

Minor planets discovered: 35<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

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Supernovae discovered: 2

SN 2000B	17 January 2000	Src Template:Webarchive
SN 2001dd	14 July 2001	Src Template:Webarchive

Pierre Antonini is a retired French mathematics professor and amateur astronomer who has discovered several minor planets and two supernovae at his private Observatoire de Bédoin (Bedoin Observatory; observatory code: 132) located at Bédoin, southeastern France. For many of his discoveries he used a 16-cm telescope or a 30-cm telescope.<ref name="springer" />

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) credits him with the discovery of 35 numbered minor planets between 1997 and 1999. As of March 2016, the MPC ranks him 204th in the all-time, top-astronomer chart by number of discovered bodies.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> Antonini is also credited with the discovery of the supernovae Template:Nobr and Template:Nobr.<ref name="IAUC-7347" /><ref name="IAUC-7663" /> In January 2004, he co-discovered a minor-planet moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid 1089 Tama.<ref name="IAUC-8265" />

The 7-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid 12580 Antonini, discovered by Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in his honour.<ref name="springer" /><ref name="MPC-Antonini" />

List of discovered minor planets

10925 Ventoux	28 January 1998	Template:Small
11147 Delmas	6 December 1997	Template:Small
11675 Billboyle	15 February 1998	Template:Small
13411 OLRAP	31 October 1999	Template:Small
14533 Roy	24 August 1997	Template:Small
15899 Silvain	3 September 1997	Template:Small
16892 Vaissière	17 February 1998	Template:Small
20242 Sagot	27 February 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	22 August 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	29 November 1999	Template:Small
Template:Mp	11 August 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	29 July 1997	Template:Small

Template:Mp	29 October 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	22 January 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	15 December 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	28 January 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	27 February 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	23 December 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	15 December 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	17 February 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	27 February 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	10 October 1999	Template:Small
Template:Mp	29 November 1999	Template:Small
Template:Mp	21 April 1998	Template:Small

Template:Mp	29 July 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	20 December 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	28 January 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	4 November 1999	Template:Small
Template:Mp	8 December 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	24 August 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	6 December 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	3 September 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	13 March 1997	Template:Small
Template:Mp	25 August 1998	Template:Small
Template:Mp	17 February 1998	Template:Small
none was co-discovered

See also

• International Astronomical Union Circular
• List of French astronomers
• List of minor planet discoverers

External links

• SN 2000B, images by P. Antonini

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