Asteroids named after people called Riccardo

(37735) Riccardomuti

Riccardo Muti (b. 1941) is an Italian conductor. He holds three music directorships: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; the Philadelphia Orchestra; and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Muti has been a prolific recording artist and has received dozens of honors, titles, awards and prizes.Discovered 1 November 1996 by V. S. Casulli, Colleverde

(45700) Levi-Setti

Riccardo Levi-Setti (b. 1928) is a world-renowned expert on trilobites who has written three editions of his classic work Trilobites (1975, 1993, 2014). He invented the high-resolution scanning ion microprobe. Among his many awards is the Sternberg Award of the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences.Discovered 3 March 2000 by CSS, Catalina

(57140) Gaddi

Riccardo Gaddi (b. 1966) is a very active amateur astronomer and popular expositor. Since 1995 he has collaborated with the San Marcello Observatory.Discovered 15 August 2001 by Tesi, L., Boattini, A., San Marcello

(86029) Riccardopozzobon

Riccardo Pozzobon (1985–2025) was an Italian planetary scientist at University of Padova whose pioneering research advanced lunar and planetary exploration. His influential publications and roles on several NASA/ESA missions, including BepiColombo, Juice, PANGAEA, Daedalus, and Artemis, left a lasting scientific legacy.Discovered 8 June 1999 by CSS, Catalina