Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian astronomers
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Place of Birth: Putignano, Apulia, Italy
About Vincenzo Silvano Casulli
- Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, usually known as Silvano Casulli (25 August 1944 – 24 July 2018) was an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at his Vallemare di Borbona Observatory (A55) 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 (M.P.C.
- 30800).
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