10820 Offenbach
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10820 Offenbach is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on August 18, 1993 by E. W. Elst at Caussols
. It is named for French composer Jacques Offenbach
.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on August 18, 1993 by E. W. Elst at Caussols
Caussols
Caussols is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France, It is known for the CERGA Observatory on the plateau de Calern.-Demographics:-References:*...
. It is named for French composer Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
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