Minor planet

Minor planet

An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...

s discovered: 54

7311 Hildehan 7311 Hildehan 7311 Hildehan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1995 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts.- External links :*...	October 14, 1995
7610 Sudbury 7610 Sudbury 7610 Sudbury is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 3, 1995 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts.- External links :*...	December 3, 1995
8900 AAVSO 8900 AAVSO 8900 AAVSO is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 1995 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts....	October 24, 1995
9983 Rickfienberg 9983 Rickfienberg 9983 Rickfienberg is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.45 years.Discovered on February 19, 1995 by Dennis di Cicco, it was given the provisional designation 1995 DA. It was later renamed 9983 Rickfienberg after Richard Tresch Fienberg, the editor of Sky & Telescope at the...	February 19, 1995
10153 Goldman 10153 Goldman 10153 Goldman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1994 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts.- External links :*...	October 26, 1994
10373 MacRobert 10373 MacRobert 10373 MacRobert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 14, 1996 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was named after Alan MacRobert.- External links :* ....	March 14, 1996
10596 Stevensimpson 10596 Stevensimpson 10596 Stevensimpson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1996 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts....	October 4, 1996
11132 Horne 11132 Horne 11132 Horne is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 17, 1996 by D. di Cicco at Sudbury, Massachusetts.Minor planet 11132 was named Asteroid Horne in honor of Johnny Horne, photo editor for the Fayetteville Observer, a 75,000 circulation daily newspaper in southeastern North Carolina where...	November 17, 1996
	February 9, 1995
(13183) 1996 TW	October 5, 1996
(13623) 1995 TD	October 3, 1995
	November 30, 1996
	October 23, 1995
	November 12, 1996
	December 9, 1996
	October 12, 1996
	November 10, 1996
(23565) 1994 WB	November 23, 1994
	January 30, 1995
(27880) 1996 EQ	March 14, 1996
(27899) 1996 QF	August 18, 1996
	October 12, 1996
	January 9, 1997
	October 24, 1995
(31006) 1995 XC	December 3, 1995
	October 8, 1996
	December 9, 1996
	December 26, 1997
	December 23, 1995
	November 12, 1996
(39728) 1996 WG	November 17, 1996
	January 29, 1997
(42543) 1996 BR	January 16, 1996
	October 12, 1996
(43894) 1995 TP	October 12, 1995
(43934) 1996 TC	October 1, 1996
	October 23, 1995
(48684) 1996 EP	March 14, 1996
(52478) 1995 TO	October 12, 1995
	October 12, 1996
(55831) 1995 XL	December 12, 1995
(55847) 1996 SQ	September 20, 1996
	November 10, 1996
	November 12, 1996
	November 12, 1996
(73856) 1996 WF	November 16, 1996
(79305) 1995 XK	December 12, 1995
(79331) 1996 TY	October 5, 1996
	October 15, 1996
	November 10, 1996
(100495) 1996 WH	November 17, 1996
(100496) 1996 WJ	November 17, 1996
	October 15, 1996
	November 11, 1996

Dennis di Cicco (born 1950) is an American

United States

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 amateur astronomer

Astronomer

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 who lives in New England

New England

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. He has discovered numerous asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s from his backyard observatory in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Sudbury, Massachusetts

Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, population 17,659. The town was incorporated in 1639, with the original boundaries including what is now Wayland. Wayland split from Sudbury in 1780. When first incorporated, it included and parts of Framingham, Marlborough, Stow...

 (IAU

IAU

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 code 817). He is also the senior editor of Sky and Telescope magazine, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1974 http://www.skyandtelescope.com/about/generalinfo/3305176.html. His special interests include astronomical photography and the history of astronomical photography, telescope

Telescope

A telescope is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation . The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 1600s , using glass lenses...

 making, and astronomical observing. During 1978-79 he was the first person to successfully photograph the analemma

Analemma

In astronomy, an analemma is a curve representing the angular offset of a celestial body from its mean position on the celestial sphere as viewed from another celestial body relative to the viewing body's celestial equator...

, making 48 separate exposures on a single piece of film during a 12-month period. The project is described in the June 1979 issue of "Sky & Telescope."

External links

• Dennis di Cicco biography and gallery at The World at Night