Stefano Sposetti

Stefano Sposetti (born 22 December 1958) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

Sposetti took images of 2004 FH, an Aten asteroid that made a sub-lunar flyby of Earth.

[1] In addition, he detects the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and conducts transit photometry on exoplanets at his observatory.

[4] As of 2019, Sposetti's discoveries include 164 minor planets (numbered only).

The Minor Planet Center ranks him 70th in the list of all-time, worldwide discoverers.

Flyby of Asteroid 2004 FH in March 2004. The other object that flashes by is an artificial satellite . Images were by Stefano Sposetti and composite by Raoul Behrend at Geneva Observatory . [ 1 ]