Pierre Antonini is a retiredFrench mathematics professor andamateur astronomer who has discovered severalminor planets and twosupernovae at his privateObservatoire de Bédoin (Bedoin Observatory; observatory code:132) located atBédoin, southeastern France. For many of his discoveries he used a 16-cm telescope or a 30-cm telescope.^[2]

He is a prolific discoverer ofasteroids. TheMinor Planet Center (MPC) credits him with the discovery of 35 numbered minor planets between 1997 and 1999. As of March 2016, the MPC ranks him 204th in the all-time, top-astronomer chart by number of discovered bodies.^[1] Antonini is also credited with the discovery of the supernovaeSN 2000B andSN 2001dd.^[3][4] In January 2004, he co-discovered aminor-planet moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid1089 Tama.^[5]

The 7-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid12580 Antonini, discovered by Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in his honour.^[2][6]

• International Astronomical Union Circular
• List of French astronomers
• List of minor planet discoverers

• SN 2000B, images by P. Antonini

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