Asteroids named after people called Bashar

(70714) Rizk

Bashar Rizk (b. 1959) is the Instrument Scientist for the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS). He was also a Co-Investigator, Image Team Leader, Senior Data Analyst, and Systems and Calibration Engineer for the Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer (DISR) instrument that took the first images of the surface of Titan.Discovered 30 October 1999 by CSS, Catalina