Fernando Pedichini is an Italian astronomer at the

National Institute for Astrophysics The National Institute for Astrophysics ( it, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn ...

(INAF) and discoverer of an

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

. In 1996, he co-discovered the main-belt asteroid together with Italian astronomer

Andrea Boattini Andrea Boattini (born 16 September 1969) is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. Career After developing a growing interest in minor planets, he graduated in 1996 from the University of Bologna with ...

at the Campo Imperatore Observatory (), where later the very successful Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey (CINEOS) took place.

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Living people 21st-century Italian astronomers Discoverers of minor planets Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Italian astronomers {{Italy-astronomer-stub