3508 Pasternak (1980 DO5) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 25, 1980 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named after Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer.
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“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)