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The details
Biography
Introduction
Antonio Vagnozzi (born 1950) is an amateur Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids.
Vagnozzi is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 46 minor planets during 1993–1999. In 1993, he was Italy's first amateur astronomer (and the second discoverer worldwide) to discover a minor planet using a CCD camera. (The first numbered CCD-based discovery was 4255 Spacewatch, which was discovered by the Spacewatch project in 1986).
He also searches for supernovae and is a co-discoverer of SN 1996ae.
The main-belt asteroid 7529 Vagnozzi was named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 11 April 1998 (M.P.C. 31611).
List of discovered minor planets
| 5609 Stroncone | 22 March 1993 | list |
| 5654 Terni | 20 May 1993 | list |
| 6417 Liberati | 4 December 1993 | list |
| 8943 Stefanozavka | 30 January 1997 | list |
| 10208 Germanicus | 30 August 1997 | list |
| 12358 Azzurra | 22 September 1993 | list |
| 14077 Volfango | 9 August 1996 | list |
| (15391) 1997 TS16 | 3 October 1997 | list |
| (17547) 1993 SN2 | 21 September 1993 | list |
| (19262) 1995 OB1 | 29 July 1995 | list |
| (20139) 1996 QU | 19 August 1996 | list |
| 21160 Saveriolombardi | 10 October 1993 | list |
| (21189) 1994 JB | 3 May 1994 | list |
| (21190) 1994 JQ | 10 May 1994 | list |
| (21287) 1996 UU3 | 31 October 1996 | list |
| (24137) 1999 VP72 | 9 November 1999 | list |
| (26894) 1995 KN1 | 29 May 1995 | list |
| (39641) 1995 KM1 | 29 May 1995 | list |
| (42545) 1996 FR2 | 21 March 1996 | list |
| 43924 Martoni | 22 February 1996 | list |
| (46648) 1995 SY | 22 September 1995 | list |
| (46656) 1995 WT6 | 28 November 1995 | list |
| (52459) 1995 DS | 21 February 1995 | list |
| (58292) 1994 GC | 2 April 1994 | list |
| (58500) 1996 VU1 | 6 November 1996 | list |
| (65812) 1996 SG7 | 30 September 1996 | list |
| (69351) 1994 AE3 | 15 January 1994 | list |
| (69425) 1996 BC | 16 January 1996 | list |
| (73719) 1993 FT | 22 March 1993 | list |
| (79213) 1994 EX | 8 March 1994 | list |
| (79314) 1996 DP1 | 23 February 1996 | list |
| (100174) 1994 AJ2 | 12 January 1994 | list |
| (100187) 1994 BT4 | 29 January 1994 | list |
| (100198) 1994 EA1 | 9 March 1994 | list |
| (100352) 1995 TD1 | 14 October 1995 | list |
| (118216) 1996 DU1 | 22 February 1996 | list |
| (120499) 1993 NA | 9 July 1993 | list |
| (120500) 1993 OM | 24 July 1993 | list |
| (129473) 1993 TK | 10 October 1993 | list |
| (129543) 1996 RU5 | 14 September 1996 | list |
| (178300) 1993 ON | 24 July 1993 | list |
| (185663) 1994 EE | 4 March 1994 | list |
| (213005) 1993 RC | 11 September 1993 | list |
| (241583) 1996 UV3 | 31 October 1996 | list |
| (269695) 1996 VW1 | 6 November 1996 | list |
| (275494) 1993 PA | 10 August 1993 | list |