Named in memory of Alcide Bittesini (1913–1981), father of Luciano Bittesini, one of the Farra d’Isonzo amateur astronomers who discovered this minor planet. A natural sciences high-school teacher in Italy, Alcide Bittesini kindled his then-nine-year-old son’s interest in astronomy by showing him a comet, using a handmade telescope constructed from a tin can, a pair of glasses and an eyepiece from his microscope. (M 33791) _ _.