1983 Bok is an asteroid discovered June 9, 1975 by Elizabeth Roemer. It is named for astronomerBart Jan Bok. It is also the initials of Brian O'Kelly from Wicklow, Ireland. He was born in 1983. 253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Elizabeth Roemer (born 1929) is an American astronomer whose research interests center on comets and asteroids. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Bart Jan Bok (Hoorn, April 28, 1906 – Tucson, August 5, 1983) was a Dutch-American astronomer. ...
See also: List of asteroids This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of them asteroids, in sequential order. ...
Vulcanoids ·Near-Earth asteroids ·Main belt ·Jupiter Trojans ·Centaurs ·Damocloids ·Comets ·Trans-Neptunians (Kuiper belt • Scattered disc • Oort cloud) Minor planets, or planetoids are minor bodies of the Solar system orbiting the Sun (or of other planetary systems orbiting other stars) that are larger than meteoroids (the largest of which might be taken to be around 10 meters or so across) but smaller than major planets (Mercury having a... 1982 Cline is an asteroid discovered on November 4, 1975 by Eleanor Helin. ... This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of them asteroids, in sequential order. ... A small solar system body is a term defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union to describe solar system objects which are not planets or dwarf planets: [1] Therefore it refers to these objects that can be further classified based on their orbit or composition: all known minor planets... Vulcanoids are hypothetical asteroids that may orbit in a dynamically stable zone between 0. ... Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earths orbit. ... For details on the physical properties of bodies in the asteroid belt see Asteroid and Main-belt comet. ... Image of the Trojan asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter along its orbital path. ... The centaurs are a class of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, named after the mythical race of centaurs. ... Damocloids are asteroids such as 5335 Damocles and 1996 PW that have long-period highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets such as 1P/Halley, but without showing a cometary coma or tail. ... Comet Hale-Bopp Comet McNaught as seen from Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia on 23 January 2007 A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of... A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) is any object in the solar system that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. ... Artists rendering of the Kuiper Belt and hypothetical more distant Oort cloud. ... The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our solar system, thinly populated by icy planetoids known as scattered disk objects (SDOs), a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). ... This image is an artists rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper Belt. ...
For other objects and regions, see Asteroid groups and families, Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons and the Solar System. For a complete listing, see List of asteroids. See also Pronunciation of asteroid names and Meanings of asteroid names. 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl An asteroid moon is an asteroid that orbits another asteroid. ... Major features of the Solar System (not to scale, from left to right): Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, the asteroid belt, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth & Moon, and Mars. ... This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of them asteroids, in sequential order. ... This page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt. ... This is a list of named asteroids, with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named after. ...
Bok was honored for his many accomplishments in the field of astronomy in a variety of ways.
Bok also gained some notoriety in 1975, when he coauthored the statement, “Objections to Astrology”, which was essentially a statement against the belief in astrology.
Bart Bok was born in Hoorn, a historic community in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands, on April 28, 1906.
In 1975Bok coauthored the statement Objections to Astrology (The Humanist, 1975)[1], which was endorsed by 186 professional astronomers, astrophysicists, and other scientists, including nineteen winners of the Nobel Prize.
Bart Bok was an exceedingly popular personality in the field of astronomy, noted for his affability and humor, as well as his capacity for drinks.
Bok crater on Mars is named for a geographical location in Papua New Guinea and not for him.
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