Maria A. Barucci
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size: 0.9em;" |+ Minor planets discovered: 3 |- | 3362 Khufu || 30 August 1984 || }} |- | 3752 Camillo || 15 August 1985 || }} |- | || 1 September 1984 || }} |}Maria Antonella Barucci is an Italian astronomer at the Observatory-Meudon, Paris. She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with a total of 3 minor planet discoveries she made in 1984 and 1985. Most notably is her joint discovery with R. Scott Dunbar of the near-Earth and Aten asteroid 3362 Khufu at Palomar Observatory, as well as her co-discovery of the Apollo asteroid 3752 Camillo.
Maria Antonella Barucci is also co-author of the astronomy and planetary science textbook ''The Solar System'' (2003) published by Springer-Verlag. The main-belt asteroid 3485 Barucci, discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell in 1983, was named in her honor. Provided by Wikipedia
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