Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004
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Памяти Николая Степановича Черных
'. Труды Государственного астрономического института им. П.К. Штернберга, Т. 78, М., 2005. – 115 с.) was a Russian-born Soviet
astronomer
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and
discoverer of minor planets
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and
comet
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s at the
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
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in Nauchnyy,
Crimea
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.
Biography and work
Chernykh was born in the Russian city of
Usman in
Voronezh Oblast
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Geography
V ...
,
in present-day
Lipetsk Oblast
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Geography
Lipets ...
. He specialized in
astrometry
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His ...
and the dynamics of small bodies in the
Solar System
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and worked at the
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
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from 1963.
Chernykh discovered two periodic comets
74P/Smirnova–Chernykh and
101P/Chernykh. He also discovered a very large number of
asteroid
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...
s, including notably
2867 Šteins
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and the Trojan asteroid
2207 Antenor
2207 Antenor is a large Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 19 August 1977, by Russian astronomer Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj on the Crimean peninsula. Th ...
. Chernykh worked with his wife and colleague
Lyudmila Chernykh
Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (russian: Людми́ла Ива́новна Черны́х, June 13, 1935 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast – July 28, 2017) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a ...
. The asteroid
2325 Chernykh discovered in 1979 by Czech astronomer
Antonín Mrkos
Antonín Mrkos () (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czechs, Czech astronomer.
Biography
Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became ...
was named in their honour.
List of discovered minor planets
References
External links
* - An appreciation of the Work of N. S. Chernykh (in Russian)
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1931 births
2004 deaths
People from Usman, Russia
Soviet astronomers
Discoverers of asteroids
Discoverers of comets
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