Ivano Bertini (astronomer)
Ivano Bertini (born April, 1968, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian astronomer at the Parthenope University of Naples.
Scientific career[edit]
Bertini got the master's degree in Astronomy at the University of Padua in 2001. He obtained the PhD title of Doctor in Space Science and Technologies at the University of Padua in 2005 discussing a thesis on "A new model of cometary dust and the Wide Angle Camera of the Rosetta Mission". He is an associate professor at the Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. He also worked at the Physikalisches Institut of the University of Bern (Switzerland), at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada (Spain), at the European Space Astronomy Centre of the European Space Agency in Madrid (Spain), and at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua (Italy). He has an active role in several space missions (the imaging system OSIRIS and the dust collector instrument GIADA on board ESA Rosetta (spacecraft) to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the imaging system EnVisS and dust impact monitoring instrument DISC on board ESA Comet Interceptor, the imaging system JANUS on board ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, ASI LICIACube, NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test, ESA Hera (space mission), ESA Solar Orbiter) and in ground-based European projects to discover and monitor hazardous Near Earth Asteroids (NEO-Shield 2 and EURONEAR). His main research themes are: astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of small Solar System objects from ground and space; space instrumentation; discovery and follow-up of hazardous asteroids; dust in interplanetary space and comets. He has received the ESA recognition awards for ROSETTA. The Main Belt asteroid 95008 Ivanobertini is dedicated to him.
Asteroid 95008 Ivanobertini[edit]
Asteroid 95008 Ivanobertini (2002 AH1),[1] 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.[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2007 (M.P.C. 58597).[2]
Present Lectures[edit]
Planetology (since Academic Year 2019–2020).
Space Science and Technologies (Academic Year 2020-2021 and 2022–23).
Physics (since Academic Year 2022–23, previously General Physics from 2019 to 2020).
Publications[edit]
For an updated complete list of publications visit the Parthenope University of Naples Teacher's page:
Latest Book[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "95008 Ivanobertini (2002 AH1)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
