Maria Antonietta Barucci is an astronomer at the Observatory-Meudon,Paris.[1] She is the joint discoverer with R. Scott Dunbar, on 30 August 1984, of the Aten asteroid 3362 Khufu (1984 QA) at Palomar (675).[2] She is a co-author of The Solar System (2003) published by Springer-Verlag.[3]