Ľudmila Pajdušáková (29 June 1916 – 6 October 1979) was a Czechoslovak
astronomer.
She specialized in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of
comets, including periodic comet
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková,
and the non-periodic
C/1946 K1 (Pajdušáková-Rotbart-Weber),
C/1948 E1 (Pajdušáková-Mrkos),
C/1951 C1 (Pajdušáková) and
C/1953 X1 (Pajdušáková).
She observed at
Skalnaté Pleso Observatory and became its third director from 1958 to 1979.
The
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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3636 Pajdušáková is named after her.
She may have been married to
AntonÃn Mrkos. In a 1951 "Comet Notes" article in ''Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific''
ASP 63 (1951) 209 Leland E. Cunningham in discussing comet
C/1951 C1 refers to her as "Miss Pajdušáková (Mrs. Mrkos)", and there was an astronomy book published in 1956 by Ľudmila Mrkosová-Pajdušáková, as well as various scientific papers under this name from approximately 1952–1958. However, their respective biographies do not seem to mention any such marriage.
References
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External links
BAICz 31 (1980) 128
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1916 births
1979 deaths
Czechoslovak astronomers
Discoverers of comets