Lyudmila Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Russian: Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.[2]
In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) at Leningrad. Her research at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) then focused on astrometry and photometry of minor planets.[2] [3] The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 130 minor planets, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon.[1] In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.[4]
Lyudmila Karachkina has two daughters, Maria and Renata. The inner main-belt asteroid 8019 Karachkina, discovered by German astronomers Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg on 14 October 1990, was named in her honor (M.P.C. 35489).[2] [5] On 23 November 1999, the minor planet 8089 Yukar was named after her husband, Yurij Vasil'evicht Karachkin (b. 1940), a physics teacher at CrAO's school.(M.P.C. 36946).[5] [6]
List of discovered minor planets
[edit ]- 1 co-discovery with L. V. Zhuravleva
- 2 co-discovery with Nikolai Chernykh
- 3 co-discovery with G. R. Kastelʹ
See also
[edit ]- Tamara Smirnova, astronomer at ITA
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ^ a b c Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(8019) Karachkina". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (8019) Karachkina. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 628. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_6794. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- ^ Чи можна "купити" зірку? (in Ukrainian). day.kiev.ua. Retrieved 2009年10月22日.
- ^ Библиотечный каталог российских и украинских диссертаций (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2009年10月22日.
- ^ a b "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(8089) Yukar". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (8089) Yukar. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 632. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_6835. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
- 1948 births
- 20th-century Russian astronomers
- 21st-century Russian astronomers
- Discoverers of asteroids
- Discoveries by Lyudmila Karachkina
- Living people
- Scientists from Rostov-on-Don
- Soviet astronomers
- Ukrainian astronomers
- Women astronomers
- 20th-century women scientists
- 21st-century women scientists