Asteroids named after people called Jacopo

(9906) Tintoretto

Named after Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti (1518-1594), called Tintoretto. He was influenced by Titian. His main work can be seen in the Scuola di S. Rocco and the palace of the Doge in Venice.Discovered 26 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar

(14074) Riccati

The family of Italian mathematicians of Jacopo Francesco Riccati (1676-1754) and his sons Vincenzo (1707-1775), Giordano (1709-1790) and Francesco (1718-1791) wrote principally on differential equations, geometry and the work of Newton. Riccati's differential equation is famous.Discovered 11 July 1996 by Osservatorio San Vittore, Bologna