+ Minor planets discovered: 15 3625 Fracastoro 27 April 1984 3778 Regge 26 April 1984 4061 Martelli 19 March 1988 4398 Chiara 23 April 1984 4478 Blanco 23 April 1984 4821 Bianucci 5 March 1986 5003 Silvanominuto 15 March 1988 5022 Roccapalumba 23 April 1984 6114 Dalla-Degregori 28 April 1984 6289 Lanusei 28 April 1984 7396 Brusin 4 March 1986 10738 Marcoaldo 17 March 1988 19968 Palazzolascaris 19 March 1988 19 March 1988 52267 Rotarytorino 4 March 1986 with V. Zappalà
Walter Ferreri (born 1948), originally from Buddusò in Sardinia, is an astronomer at the Italian Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, science writer and discoverer of minor planets.
He is a member of the "Division III Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites" and the "Division III Planetary Systems Sciences" at the IAU. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 numbered minor planets he made at the La Silla Observatory site in Chile between 1984 and 1988.
The outer main-belt asteroid 3308 Ferreri, discovered by astronomers Henri Debehogne and Giovanni de Sanctis, is named after him for his contributions to and popularization of astronomy. Naming citation was published on 14 April 1987 ().
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