Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К.
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'. Труды Государственного астрономического института им. П.К. Штернберга, Т. 78, М., 2005. – 115 с.) was a Russian-born Soviet

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and discoverer of minor planets and

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s at the

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in Nauchnyy,

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Biography and work

Chernykh was born in the Russian city of Usman in Voronezh Oblast, in present-day

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. He specialized in astrometry and the dynamics of small bodies in the

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and worked at the

from 1963. Chernykh discovered two periodic comets 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh and

101P/Chernykh 101P/Chernykh is a periodic comet which was first discovered on August 19, 1977, by Nikolaj Stepanovich Chernykh. In 1991, 101P/Chernykh was observed to split. JPL concluded that the comet split in April 1991, when 3.3 AU from the Sun. The p ...

. He also discovered a very large number of asteroids, including notably 2867 Šteins and the Trojan asteroid 2207 Antenor. Chernykh worked with his wife and colleague Lyudmila Chernykh. The asteroid

2325 Chernykh 2325 Chernykh, provisional designation , is a dark Themistian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 25 September 1979, by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Klet Observatory in ...

discovered in 1979 by Czech astronomer

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was named in their honour.

List of discovered minor planets

References

External links

* - An appreciation of the Work of N. S. Chernykh (in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Chernykh, Nikolai Stepanovich 1931 births 2004 deaths People from Usman, Russia Soviet astronomers Discoverers of asteroids Discoverers of comets *