(1983) Bok is an asteroid discovered June 9, 1975 by Elizabeth Roemer. It is named for astronomers Bart Jan Bok and Priscilla Fairfield Bok. Bart Jan Bok (Hoorn, 28 April 1906 – Tucson, 5 August 1983) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

1905 Ambartsumian (1972 JZ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 14, 1972 by Smirnova, T. at Nauchnyj.

1560 Strattonia (1942 XB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 3, 1942 by E. Delporte at Uccle.

Frederick John Marrian Stratton FRS (16 October 1881 – 2 September 1960) was a British astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947.

He was born in Birmingham and graduated in 1904 from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

1691 Oort (1956 RB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1956 by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It was named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort.

Jan Hendrik Oort FRS[1] (Franeker, 28 April 1900 – Leiden, 5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name.

1501 Baade (1938 UJ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1938 by Wachmann, A. at Bergedorf.

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

Hermann Carl Vogel (1841-1907) was a German astronomer and spectroscopist. He invented an early scheme to classify stellar spectra and confirmed the sun's rotation. He directed the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory from 1882 to 1907.

Discovered 1960 Sept. 24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels.

Edward Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846–February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars.