Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vittorio Goretti has discovered 32 main-belt asteroids, nine of them assigned permanent numbers as of April 2011. He is a member of the Cortina Astronomical Association (Associazione Astronomica Cortina) and is also a collaborator with the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory monitoring Near-Earth Asteroids brighter than magnitude 18.0 V under the auspices of Division III of the International Astronomical Union at his own Pianoro Observatory (MPC Observatory 610). Asteroid 7801 Goretti has been named in his honour.