Soviet astronomer
Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (Russian : Людми́ла Ива́новна Черны́х , June 13, 1935 in Shuya , Ivanovo Oblast – July 28, 2017) was a Ukrainian -Russian -Soviet astronomer , wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh , and a prolific discoverer of minor planets .[2] [3]
Professional career In 1959 she graduated from Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute (now Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University). Between 1959 and 1963 she worked in the Time and Frequency Laboratory of the All-Union Research Institute of Physico-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements in Irkutsk , where she did astrometrical observations for the Time Service.
Between 1964 and 1998 she was a scientific worker at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian Academy of Science since 1991), working at the observation base of the institute at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) in Nauchnyy settlement on the Crimean peninsula . In 1998 she was promoted to senior scientific worker at CrAO. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) credits her with the discovery of 267 numbered minor planets , which she made at CrAO between 1966 and 1992.[1] Tamara Smirnova .
Honors The asteroid 2325 Chernykh , discovered in 1979 by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos , was named in her and her husband's honour.[2] M.P.C. 6060[4]
List of discovered minor planets Two of her notable discoveries are 2127 Tanya – named after Russian child diarist Tanya Savicheva , and 2212 Hephaistos , a near-Earth object of the Apollo group of asteroids.
2031 BAM 8 October 1969
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2092 Sumiana
16 October 1969
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2127 Tanya 29 May 1971
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2132 Zhukov
3 October 1975
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2142 Landau
3 April 1972
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2144 Marietta
18 January 1975
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2186 Keldysh
27 September 1973
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2205 Glinka
27 September 1973
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2212 Hephaistos 27 September 1978
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2245 Hekatostos
24 January 1968
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2266 Tchaikovsky
12 November 1974
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2273 Yarilo
6 March 1975
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2279 Barto
25 February 1968
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2296 Kugultinov 18 January 1975
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2341 Aoluta
16 December 1976
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2352 Kurchatov
10 September 1969
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2354 Lavrov
9 August 1978
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2385 Mustel
11 November 1969
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2386 Nikonov
19 September 1974
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2419 Moldavia
19 September 1974
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2446 Lunacharsky
14 October 1971
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2448 Sholokhov
18 January 1975
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2457 Rublyov
3 October 1975
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2467 Kollontai
14 August 1966
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2468 Repin
8 October 1969
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2480 Papanov
16 December 1976
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2489 Suvorov
11 July 1975
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2530 Shipka
9 July 1978
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2540 Blok
13 October 1971
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2551 Decabrina
16 December 1976
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2561 Margolin
8 October 1969
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2609 Kiril-Metodi
9 August 1978
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2669 Shostakovich
16 December 1976
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2692 Chkalov
16 December 1976
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2699 Kalinin
16 December 1976
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2755 Avicenna
26 September 1973
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2756 Dzhangar
19 September 1974
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2807 Karl Marx 15 October 1969
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2833 Radishchev
9 August 1978
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2837 Griboedov
13 October 1971
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2877 Likhachev
8 October 1969
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2894 Kakhovka
27 September 1978
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2907 Nekrasov
3 October 1975
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2931 Mayakovsky
16 October 1969
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2948 Amosov
8 October 1969
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2965 Surikov
18 January 1975
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2977 Chivilikhin
19 September 1974
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2998 Berendeya
3 October 1975
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3010 Ushakov
27 September 1978
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3052 Herzen
16 December 1976
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3126 Davydov
8 October 1969
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3127 Bagration
27 September 1973
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3147 Samantha
16 December 1976
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3232 Brest
19 September 1974
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3273 Drukar
3 October 1975
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3321 Dasha
3 October 1975
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3332 Raksha
4 July 1978
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3384 Daliya
19 September 1974
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3429 Chuvaev
19 September 1974
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3441 Pochaina
8 October 1969
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3483 Svetlov
16 December 1976
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3523 Arina
3 October 1975
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3577 Putilin
7 October 1969
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3588 Kirik
8 October 1981
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3608 Kataev
27 September 1978
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3659 Bellingshausen
8 October 1969
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3681 Boyan
27 August 1974
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3702 Trubetskaya
3 July 1970
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3703 Volkonskaya 9 August 1978
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3719 Karamzin
16 December 1976
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3747 Belinskij
5 November 1975
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3770 Nizami
24 August 1974
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3804 Drunina
8 October 1969
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3890 Bunin
18 December 1976
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3963 Paradzhanov 8 October 1969
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3967 Shekhtelia
16 December 1976
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3968 Koptelov
8 October 1978
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4022 Nonna 8 October 1981
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4135 Svetlanov
14 August 1966
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4164 Shilov
16 October 1969
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4174 Pikulia
16 September 1982
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4184 Berdyayev
8 October 1969
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4195 Esambaev
19 September 1982
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4196 Shuya
16 September 1982
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4229 Plevitskaya
22 January 1971
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4235 Tatishchev
27 September 1978
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4244 Zakharchenko
7 October 1981
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4286 Rubtsov
8 August 1988
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4304 Geichenko
27 September 1973
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4361 Nezhdanova
9 October 1977
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4371 Fyodorov
10 April 1983
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4426 Roerich 15 October 1969
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4437 Yaroshenko
10 April 1983
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4449 Sobinov
3 September 1987
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4485 Radonezhskij
27 August 1987
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4537 Valgrirasp
2 September 1987
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4560 Klyuchevskij
16 December 1976
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4594 Dashkova
17 May 1980
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4605 Nikitin
18 September 1987
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4616 Batalov
17 January 1975
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4622 Solovjova
16 November 1979
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4623 Obraztsova
24 October 1981
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4681 Ermak
8 October 1969
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4682 Bykov
27 September 1973
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4758 Hermitage
27 September 1978
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4762 Dobrynya
16 September 1982
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4810 Ruslanova
14 April 1972
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4869 Piotrovsky
26 October 1989
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4879 Zykina
12 November 1974
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4880 Tovstonogov
14 October 1975
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4915 Solzhenitsyn
8 October 1969
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4918 Rostropovich
24 August 1974
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4919 Vishnevskaya
19 September 1974
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4926 Smoktunovskij
16 September 1982
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4944 Kozlovskij 2 September 1987
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4980 Magomaev
19 September 1974
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4981 Sinyavskaya
12 November 1974
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5014 Gorchakov
19 September 1974
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5043 Zadornov
19 September 1974
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5055 Opekushin
13 August 1986
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