Piero Sicoli


Piero Sicoli is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, observing at the Italian Sormano Astronomical Observatory.He deals with the history of comets, astrometry and orbit calculations, in particular of objects approaching the Earth. As the observatory's coordinator, he is responsible for close encounters computation of near-Earth objects, orbit computations, and identification of asteroids. The Observatory's focus is the examination and tracking of NEOs in Solar System.
The Nysa asteroid 7866 Sicoli, discovered by Edward Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station in 1982, is named in his honor.
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List of discovered minor planets

6882 Sormano5 February 1995
8106 Carpino23 December 1994
8208 Volta28 February 1995
8209 Toscanelli28 February 1995
8935 Beccaria11 January 1997
9111 Matarazzo28 January 1997
9115 Battisti27 February 1997
10387 Bepicolombo18 October 1996
11145 Emanuelli29 August 1997
11652 Johnbrownlee7 February 1997

22500 Grazianoventre26 July 1997
26197 Bormio31 March 1997
31244 Guidomonzino19 February 1998
32931 Ferioli26 September 1995
32944 Gussalli19 November 1995
25 October 1997
35316 Monella11 January 1997
35334 Yarkovsky31 March 1997
39653 Carnera17 October 1995
43956 Elidoro7 February 1997

Publications

  • "The orbit of Hidalgo", British Astron. Assoc. Jnl.,
  • "Future Earth Approaches of Toutatis", Minor Planet Bulletin,
  • "Earth Close Approaches of Minor Planet 1994 PC1", Minor Planet Bulletin,
  • "Asteroid and Planet Close Encounters", Minor Planet Bulletin,
  • "Monitoring Hazardous Objects", Proceedings of the Third Italian Meeting of Planetary Science,
  • "Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of Ceres", Asteroids III,
  • "Planetary Close Encounters", Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Meeting of Planetary Science,
  • "Killed by a meteorite?", Mercury,
  • "Identification of asteroids and comets: methods and results", Proceedings of the X National Conference on Planetary Science.
  • "Comets and Political anxieties in the first half of the Ninth Century: New Light on Comets X/839 B1 and X/841 Y1". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 25, 213–226
  • "New and improved orbits of historical comets: Late 4th and 5th century" ICARUS Volume 384, 15 September 2022, 115112
  • "Did 1P/ Halley have an outburst in 990 AD?". THE COMET’S TALE Comet Section – British Astronomical Association, Journal – Number 41 2022 June
  • "Medieval Comets European and Middle Eastern Perspective". Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/SCCIE.2023.666301
  • "New and improved orbits of some historical comets: 6TH and 7TH centuries". ICARUS Volume 420, 15 September 2024, 116165
  • "Comete nell'Italia antica e medievale" Book Edit. LED Bibliotheca