Vincenzo Silvano Casulli


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Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, usually known as Silvano Casulli was an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at his Vallemare di Borbona Observatory in Lazio.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 192 minor planets. In 1985 he served on a team involved in using the Hubble Space Telescope in a study that focused on Transition Comets—UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids. He was the first amateur astronomer to obtain precise astronometric positions of minor planets using a CCD camera. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.
In 1997, the inner main-belt asteroid and member of the Flora family, 7132 Casulli, was named by astronomer Antonio Vagnozzi in his honor.

Discoveries

9121 Stefanovalentini

On 24 February 1998, he discovered 9121 Stefanovalentini at the Italian Colleverde Observatory. It is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the main-belt, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter. Casulli also obtained a light-curve from phtometric observations and determined a period of 11.84 hours for the body's rotation. He named it in honour of amateur astronomer Stefano Valentini.

93061 Barbagallo

Together with Italian astronomer Ermes Colombini and others, he co-discovered the asteroid 93061 Barbagallo on 23 September 2000. The group-discovery is credited to the discovering observatory, Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna. The asteroid was named after Mariano Barbagallo, an Italian colleague and friend of Colombini.

List of discovered minor planets

6339 Giliberti20 September 1993
6530 Adry12 April 1994
6877 Giada10 October 1994
6929 Misto31 October 1994
7600 Vacchi9 September 1994
7665 Putignano11 October 1994
7961 Ercolepoli10 October 1994
8569 Mameli1 October 1996
8716 Ginestra23 September 1995
8742 Bonazzoli14 February 1998
9121 Stefanovalentini24 February 1998
10386 Romulus12 October 1996
11142 Facchini7 January 1997
11328 Mariotozzi19 October 1995
11578 Cimabue4 March 1994
12384 Luigimartella10 October 1994
13197 Pontecorvo17 February 1997
13653 Priscus9 February 1997
13684 Borbona27 August 1997
14088 Ancus3 May 1997
14498 Bernini28 February 1995
15007 Edoardopozio5 July 1998
15353 Meucci22 November 1994
15854 Numa15 February 1996
15869 Tullius8 August 1996

37627 Lucaparmitano11 October 1993
37640 Luiginegrelli20 November 1993
37683 Gustaveeiffel19 May 1995
37735 Riccardomuti1 November 1996
40134 Marsili27 August 1998
42585 Pheidippides30 March 1997
43935 Danshechtman1 October 1996
18 September 1998
48720 Enricomentana29 September 1996
50866 Davidesprizzi1 April 2000
51915 Andry20 August 2001
52558 Pigafetta27 March 1997
19 September 1998
7 December 1998
58417 Belzoni25 January 1996
19 October 1996
58498 Octaviopaz2 November 1996
65785 Carlafracci26 October 1995
65821 De Curtis30 October 1996
69460 Christibarnard17 October 1996
69500 Ginobartali6 February 1997
73872 Stefanoragazzi7 January 1997
73891 Pietromennea10 March 1997
75225 Corradoaugias27 November 1999
83657 Albertosordi12 October 2001

199900 Brunoganz8 April 2007
204816 Andreacamilleri16 July 2007
204896 Giorgiobocca16 October 2007
207563 Toscana1 August 2006
210032 Enricocastellani16 July 2006
210107 Pistoletto30 August 2006
210182 Mazzini26 October 2006
210290 Borsellino13 October 2007
16 October 2007
212373 Pietrocascella22 April 2006
212500 Robertojoppolo4 September 2006
214772 UNICEF23 October 2006
214819 Gianotti10 November 2006
214820 Faustocoppi14 November 2006
214928 Carrara5 November 2007
216241 Renzopiano14 November 2006
216757 Vasari13 September 2005
218636 Calabria24 September 2005
218866 Alexantioch15 December 2006
224693 Morganfreeman21 January 2006
225076 Vallemare8 May 2007
5 August 2005
229781 Arthurmcdonald3 August 2008
231265 Saulperlmutter5 January 2006
233292 Brianschmidt19 January 2006

16 March 2010
282903 Masada20 April 2007
8 April 2007
11 July 2004
292872 Anoushankar12 November 2006
15 December 2006
293477 Teotihuacan16 March 2007
294296 Efeso3 November 2007
295471 Herbertnitsch27 August 2008
21 September 2006
22 September 2006
14 November 2006
27 August 2006
19 September 2006
22 December 2008
12 January 2007
19 July 2009
16 October 2007
327943 Xavierbarcons9 March 2007
327982 Balducci10 April 2007
3 August 2008
20 April 2006
22 October 2008
19 August 2007
13 February 2009