Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva (, ; born 22 May 1946) is a

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n and Ukrainian

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, who worked at the

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in Nauchnij, where she discovered 213

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s. She also serves as president of the Crimean branch of the "Prince Clarissimus

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(which was founded in May 1995 in Berezovo, and is not the same as the "Menshikov Foundation" children's charity founded by Anthea Eno, the wife of

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). She has discovered a number of asteroids, including the

Trojan asteroid In astronomy, a trojan is a small celestial body (mostly asteroids) that shares the orbit of a larger body, remaining in a stable orbit approximately 60° ahead of or behind the main body near one of its Lagrangian points and . Trojans can shar ...

4086 Podalirius and asteroid 2374 Vladvysotskij. Zhuravleva is ranked 43 in the

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's list of those who have discovered minor planets. She is credited with having discovered 200, and co-discovered an additional 13 between 1972 and 1992. In the rating of minor planet discoveries, she is listed in 57th place out of 1,429 astronomers. The main-belt asteroid 26087 Zhuravleva, discovered by her colleague

Lyudmila Karachkina Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) at Leningrad. Her research at the ...

at Nauchnij, was named in her honour.

List of discovered minor planets

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