It was discovered on 4 November 1983, by American astronomer Brian Skiff at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the United States.
[5] Dicicco is member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the inner main-belt.
[1] In December 2014, two rotational lightcurves of Dicicco were obtained from photometric observations by an international collaboration of American and European astronomers.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.5949 and 3.5950 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.18 and 0.19 magnitude, respectively (U=3/n.a.).
[5][a] This minor planet was named after American amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Dennis di Cicco.