+ Minor planets discovered: 35 see + Supernovae discovered: 2 SN 2000B 11 January 2000 Src SN 2001dd 14 July 2001 Src
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.
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. Antonini is also credited with the discovery of the supernovae SN 2000B and . In January 2004, he co-discovered a minor-planet moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid 1089 Tama.
The 7-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid 12580 Antonini, discovered by Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in his honour.
List of discovered minor planets
10925 Ventoux 28 January 1998 11147 Delmas 6 December 1997 11675 Billboyle 15 February 1998 13411 OLRAP 31 October 1999 14533 Roy 24 August 1997 15899 Silvain 3 September 1997 16892 Vaissière 17 February 1998 20242 Sagot 27 February 1998 22 August 1998 29 November 1999 11 August 1997 29 July 1997 29 October 1997 22 January 1998 15 December 1998 28 January 1998 27 February 1998 23 December 1997 15 December 1998 17 February 1998 27 February 1998 10 October 1999 29 November 1999 21 April 1998 29 July 1997 20 December 1997 28 January 1998 4 November 1999 8 December 1998 24 August 1997 6 December 1997 3 September 1997 13 March 1997 25 August 1998 17 February 1998 none was co-discovered
See also International Astronomical Union Circular List of French astronomers List of minor planet discoverers
References
External links SN 2000B, images by P. Antonini