Lyudmila Chernykh


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Lyudmila Ivanivna Chernykh was a Ukrainian-Russian-Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

Professional career

Chernykh was born in 1935 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast. In 1959, she graduated from the Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute. 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 made 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, working at the observation base of the institute at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyy settlement on the Crimean peninsula. In 1998 she was promoted to senior scientific worker at CrAO. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 267 numbered minor planets, which she made at CrAO between 1966 and 1992. Several of these discoveries she made in collaboration with her husband and with Tamara Smirnova.

Honors

The asteroid 2325 Chernykh, discovered in 1979 by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos, was named in her and her husband's honour. The official naming citation was published by the MPC on 1 June 1981.

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.
1737 Severny13 October 1966
1771 Makover24 January 1968
1772 Gagarin6 February 1968
1789 Dobrovolsky19 August 1966
1790 Volkov9 March 1967
1792 Reni24 January 1968
1805 Dirikis1 April 1970
1828 Kashirina14 August 1966
1832 Mrkos11 August 1969
1833 Shmakova11 August 1969
1855 Korolev8 October 1969
1856 Růžena8 October 1969
1889 Pakhmutova24 January 1968
1890 Konoshenkova6 February 1968
1956 Artek8 October 1969
1957 Angara1 April 1970
1975 Pikelner11 August 1969
1976 Kaverin1 April 1970
2008 Konstitutsiya27 September 1973
2030 Belyaev8 October 1969

2446 Lunacharsky14 October 1971
2448 Sholokhov18 January 1975
2457 Rublyov3 October 1975
2467 Kollontai14 August 1966
2468 Repin8 October 1969
2480 Papanov16 December 1976
2489 Suvorov11 July 1975
2530 Shipka9 July 1978
2540 Blok13 October 1971
2551 Decabrina16 December 1976
2561 Margolin8 October 1969
2609 Kiril-Metodi9 August 1978
2669 Shostakovich16 December 1976
2692 Chkalov16 December 1976
2699 Kalinin16 December 1976
2755 Avicenna26 September 1973
2756 Dzhangar19 September 1974
2807 Karl Marx15 October 1969
2833 Radishchev9 August 1978
2837 Griboedov13 October 1971

3483 Svetlov16 December 1976
3523 Arina3 October 1975
3577 Putilin7 October 1969
3588 Kirik8 October 1981
3608 Kataev27 September 1978
3659 Bellingshausen8 October 1969
3681 Boyan27 August 1974
3702 Trubetskaya3 July 1970
3703 Volkonskaya9 August 1978
3719 Karamzin16 December 1976
3747 Belinskij5 November 1975
3770 Nizami24 August 1974
3804 Drunina8 October 1969
3890 Bunin18 December 1976
3963 Paradzhanov8 October 1969
3967 Shekhtelia16 December 1976
3968 Koptelov8 October 1978
4022 Nonna8 October 1981
4135 Svetlanov14 August 1966
4164 Shilov16 October 1969

4622 Solovjova16 November 1979
4623 Obraztsova24 October 1981
4681 Ermak8 October 1969
4682 Bykov27 September 1973
4758 Hermitage27 September 1978
4762 Dobrynya16 September 1982
4810 Ruslanova14 April 1972
4869 Piotrovsky26 October 1989
4879 Zykina12 November 1974
4880 Tovstonogov14 October 1975
4915 Solzhenitsyn8 October 1969
4918 Rostropovich24 August 1974
4919 Vishnevskaya19 September 1974
4926 Smoktunovskij16 September 1982
4944 Kozlovskij2 September 1987
4980 Magomaev19 September 1974
4981 Sinyavskaya12 November 1974
5014 Gorchakov19 September 1974
5043 Zadornov19 September 1974
5055 Opekushin13 August 1986

5858 Borovitskia28 September 1978
5940 Feliksobolev8 October 1981
5955 Khromchenko2 September 1987
6110 Kazak4 July 1978
6113 Tsap16 September 1982
6121 Plachinda2 September 1987
6161 Vojno-Yasenetsky14 October 1971
6166 Univsima27 September 1978
6180 Bystritskaya8 August 1986
6232 Zubitskia19 September 1985
6355 Univermoscow15 October 1969
6374 Beslan8 August 1986
6432 Temirkanov3 October 1975
6511 Furmanov27 August 1987
6538 Muraviov25 September 1981
6547 Vasilkarazin2 September 1987
6573 Magnitskij19 September 1974
6589 Jankovich19 September 1985
6591 Sabinin7 September 1986
6619 Kolya27 September 1973

8839 Novichkova24 October 1989
8985 Tula9 August 1978
9146 Tulikov16 December 1976
9150 Zavolokin27 September 1978
9154 Kol'tsovo16 September 1982
9167 Kharkiv18 September 1987
9168 Sarov18 September 1987
9176 Struchkova15 November 1990
9516 Inasan16 December 1976
9549 Akplatonov19 September 1985
9565 Tikhonov18 September 1987
9566 Rykhlova18 September 1987
9609 Ponomarevalya26 August 1992
9718 Gerbefremov16 December 1976
9733 Valtikhonov19 September 1985
9933 Alekseev19 September 1985
10001 Palermo8 October 1969
10002 Bagdasarian8 October 1969
10007 Malytheatre16 December 1976
10010 Rudruna9 August 1978

14339 Knorre10 April 1983
14789 GAISH8 October 1969
14834 Isaev17 September 1987
15199 Rodnyanskaya19 September 1974
15212 Yaroslavl'17 November 1979
15669 Pshenichner19 September 1974
15675 Goloseevo27 September 1978
15676 Almoisheev8 October 1978
15702 Olegkotov2 September 1987
16395 Ioannpravednyj23 October 1981
16407 Oiunskij19 September 1985
16515 Usman'grad15 November 1990
16516 Efremlevitan15 November 1990
17358 Lozino-Lozinskij27 September 1978
18285 Vladplatonov14 April 1972
18287 Verkin3 October 1975
18293 Pilyugin27 September 1978
18294 Rudenko27 September 1978
19919 Pogorelov8 October 1977
19962 Martynenko7 September 1986