9973 Szpilman
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9973 Szpilman is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun
once every 4.03 years.
Discovered on July 12, 1993 by E. W. Elst working at the European Southern Observatory, it was given the provisional designation . It was later renamed "Szpilman" after Wladyslaw Szpilman
, a Polish
pianist.
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
once every 4.03 years.
Discovered on July 12, 1993 by E. W. Elst working at the European Southern Observatory, it was given the provisional designation . It was later renamed "Szpilman" after Wladyslaw Szpilman
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Władysław "Wladek" Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer, and memoirist. Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting how he survived the Holocaust...
, a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
pianist.