Ivano Bertini

Asteroid 95008 Ivanobertini (2002 AH1 ), a background asteroid in the asteroid belt, was named in his honor. The asteroid was discovered at the Italian Cima Ekar Observing Station on 4 January 2002, by the Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey of which Ivano Bertini has been an active member. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2007 (M.P.C. 58597 ).

Bertini got the Master degree in Astronomy at the University of Padua in 2001, discussing a thesis about the discovery, astrometry, and Photometry of asteroids with the Wide Angle Camera of the OSIRIS two-camera system instrument on board the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. He obtained the PhD title of Doctor in Space Science and Technologies at the University of Padua in 2005. The thesis regarded “A new model of cometary dust and the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission”. After post-docs in Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, he is now working at the Center of Studies and Activities for Space (CISAS) ‘G. Colombo’ of the University of Padua. His main research field is the observational study and theoretical modelling of the dust environment in comets.

Ivano Bertini (born April, 1968, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian astronomer at the University of Padua.