42516 Oistrach
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42516 Oistrach is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on November 11, 1993 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg
dedicated to world class violinists David Oistrakh
and Igor Oistrakh
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=42516. Note that whilst the accepted transliteration of the name of the dedicatee is "Oistrakh" it appears that this is unfortunately not the form that was used to name the asteroid.
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 November 11, 1993 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg
Tautenburg
Tautenburg, a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia in Germany, houses the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory....
dedicated to world class violinists David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
and Igor Oistrakh
Igor Oistrakh
Igor Oistrakh is a Russian violinist.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine and is the son of violinist David Oistrakh. He attended the Central Music School in Moscow and made his concert debut in 1948. From 1949 to 1955 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, winning first prizes and international...
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=42516. Note that whilst the accepted transliteration of the name of the dedicatee is "Oistrakh" it appears that this is unfortunately not the form that was used to name the asteroid.