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'''Lorenzo Iorio''' ([[Bari]], 1971) is an [[Italians|Italian]] physicist. He is currently active in the field of <ref>
{{cite web
|url= http://digilander.libero.it/lorri/research_activity.htm
|title=L. Iorio: research activity
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref>  the phenomenology of the [[general relativity]], and more broadly, of the [[gravitational physics]] in several astronomical and astrophysical scenarios.

In particular, he studied several aspects of the measurements of the general relativistic [[frame-dragging]] effect with artificial spacecraft, natural satellites, planets and stars orbiting different types of bodies<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325874.800-loner-stakes-claim-to-gravity-prize.html
|title = Loner stakes claim to gravity prize
| first       = Stuart
| last        = Clark
|date =  18 January 2007
|work = New Scientist
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.weltderphysik.de/gebiet/astro/news/2007/lense-thirring-effekt-rotierende-raumzeit-gemessen/
|title = Lense-Thirring-Effekt: Rotierende Raumzeit gemessen?
|date =  19 January 2007
|language = German
|accessdate=18 January 2013
|work = [[Welt der Physik]]
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|title = Mars-sonde beviser Einsteins teori
|url = http://ing.dk/artikel/76471?highlight=Iorio
|date =  19 January 2007
|last = Ramskov
|first = Jens
|work = [[Ingeniøren]]
|language = Danish
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|title = Mars sleurt door aswenteling ruimte en tijd met zich mee
|url = http://archief.nrc.nl/?modus=l&text=Lorenzo+Iorio&hit=2&set=1&check=Y
|date =  27 January 2007
|last = Beekman
|format =
|first = George
|work = Science supplement of [[NRC Handelsblad]]
|language = Dutch
|accessdate= 18 January 2013
}}</ref> In this context, he performed detailed analyses of several potential sources of systematic errors which may have an impact on the total accuracy of many tests of such a subtle effect predicted by [[general relativity]] which have been either proposed or actually performed. Another line of research pursued by L. Iorio is the possible existence of the [[Pioneer anomaly]] as a genuine gravitational phenomenon<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006S%26T...112a..20H
|last = Hellemans
|first = Alexander
|title = Pioneer Anomaly Mystery Narrows
|date =  July 2006
|work = [[Sky and Telescope]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025541.800
|title = Have we got gravity all wrong?
| first       = Stuart
| last        = Clark
|date =  3 June 2006
|work = New Scientist
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> Indeed, if it was really due to an external gravitational cause, also the orbital motions of the major natural bodies moving in the spatial regions in which the [[Pioneer anomaly]] was detected should be affected as well in the same way. Iorio studied also the phenomenology of several modified models of the gravitational interaction such as, e.g., the [[DGP]] braneworld model.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.geo.de/GEO/natur/kosmos/4670.html
|title = Astrophysik: Die Sonne entfernt sich
|language    = German
|date = 22 November 2005
|work= [[GEO (magazine)]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.geo.de/_components/GEO/info/presse/files/2005/geo_200512_astrophysik.pdf
|title = ASTROPHYSIK - Hat der Weltraum vier Dimensionen?
|language    = German
|format = PDF
|date = 20 November 2005
| location    = Hamburg
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref>  He also looked at the effects that a [[Hideki Yukawa|Yukawa]]-type long-range modification of the usual [[Newton]]'s inverse-square law of gravity may have on the planetary motions.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/30975
|title = Modified gravity fails at long distances
|date =  24 August 2007
|accessdate=18 January 2013
|work= [[Physics World]]
|first = Jon
|last = Cartwright
}}</ref>
Iorio studied the consequences that a steady accumulation of non-annihilating [[dark matter]], especially in the form of [[mirror matter]], may have on the planets of the [[Sun]].<ref>
{{cite web
|title = Sun's appetite for dark matter may affect Earth's orbit
|url = http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/41505
|date =  25 January 2010
|first = Edwin
|last = Cartlidge
|work= [[Physics World]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref>  Moreover, he also investigated the impact that a steady mass decrease of the [[Sun]] will have on the remote future of the [[Earth]]'s orbit.<ref>
{{cite web
|title = The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth-Maybe
|url = http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sun-will-eventually-engulf-earth-maybe
|date =  8 September 2008
|last = Appell
|first = David
|work = Scientific American
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> Another topic covered by Iorio is the search of possible explanations of the anomalous increase of the [[eccentricity]] of the [[lunar orbit]].<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2011/03/forscher-ratseln-uber-bahnveranderung.html
|title = Forscher rätseln über Bahnveränderung des Mondes
| first       = Andreas
| last        = Müller
|date = 16 March 2011
|work = grenz wissenschaft-aktuell
|accessdate=18 January 2013
|language =  German
}}</ref>

Iorio has published so far over 160<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PHY&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-lat&arxiv_sel=hep-ph&arxiv_sel=hep-th&arxiv_sel=math&arxiv_sel=math-ph&arxiv_sel=nlin&arxiv_sel=nucl-ex&arxiv_sel=nucl-th&arxiv_sel=physics&arxiv_sel=quant-ph&arxiv_sel=q-bio&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&adsobj_query=YES&aut_req=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Iorio%2C+Lorenzo&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=200&start_nr=1&jou_pick=NO&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1
|title=Author query results
|work=[[NASA ADS]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> papers in international [[peer-reviewed]] journals.  As it can be retrieved from the  [[Astrophysics Data System]], jointly managed by [[NASA]] and the [[Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory]], the [[h-index]] of Iorio is, at present, 26 with over 1270 citations (self-citations excluded).

Iorio received in 2003 a prize<ref name="hinda"/> for his scientific activity by the [[Italian Physical Society]]. The scientific publisher [[Elsevier]] awarded him two New Astronomy Top Cited Article 2005-2010 awards<ref name="hinda">
{{cite web
|url = http://www.hindawi.com/68367584/
|title = From Iorio's page by [[Hindawi Publishing Corporation]]
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}
</ref> in 2010 for two papers of him published in the journal
[[New Astronomy]]. Some papers of him were included<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/new-astronomy/13841076/archive/5
|title = Top 25 Hottest Articles, Physics and Astronomy, New Astronomy, July to September 2005
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/new-astronomy/13841076/archive/8
|title = Top 25 Hottest Articles, Physics and Astronomy, New Astronomy, April to June 2006
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/new-astronomy/13841076/archive/9
|title = Top 25 Hottest Articles, Physics and Astronomy, New Astronomy, July to September 2006
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/new-astronomy/13841076/archive/10
|title = Top 25 Hottest Articles, Physics and Astronomy, New Astronomy, October to December 2006
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/new-astronomy/13841076/archive/11
|title = Top 25 Hottest Articles, Physics and Astronomy, New Astronomy, January to March 2007
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> in the Top 25 Hottest Articles classification of  [[New Astronomy]], published  by [[Elsevier]] itself. A talk given by Iorio at the [[European Geosciences Union]] General Assembly 2005 in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], was included among papers which might be of interest for science writers, for public information officers and for the press media and which will be forwarded to the Press Officer<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/special_interest/programme_view.php?sp_id=10&pg_id=113
|title = Papers of Special Interest as identified by Session/Event Organizers at EGU General Assembly 2005
|accessdate=18 January 2013
}}</ref> The [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] invited<ref name="hinda"/>
Iorio to submit appropriate candidates for the [[Crafoord Prize]] 2006, the most prestigious award in the field of [[earth science|geosciences]]. He was consulted as a referee<ref name="hinda"/> of the [[Cosmic Vision|Cosmic Vision 2015-2025]] program by the [[European Space Agency]], and by other international institutions<ref name="hinda"/> ([[Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council]] (PPARC),  Czech Science Foundation (GA CR)).

==Notes==
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== Other websites ==
* [http://digilander.libero.it/lorri/homepage_of_lorenzo_iorio.htm Personal homepage of L. Iorio]
*[http://www.hindawi.com/68367584/ Page of L. Iorio at [[Hindawi Publishing Corporation]]]

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[[Category:Italian people]]
[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]