Beniamin Pavlovich Schechowski
| (953) Painleva | April 29, 1921 |
| (976) Benjamin | March 27, 1922 |
| (977) Philippa | April 6, 1922 |
| (988) Appeal | November 10, 1922 |
| (1013) Tombecka | January 17, 1924 |
| (1017) Jacqueline | February 4, 1924 |
| (1037) Davidweilla | October 29, 1924 |
| (1040) Klumpkea | January 20, 1925 |
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Beniamin Pawlowitsch Schechowski ( Russian Вениамин Павлович Жеховский ; * 1881 in Warsaw , at that time Russia ; † after 1953 ) was a Russian-Polish-French astronomer.
Life
After 1934 he began to sign his scientific work as Benjamin de Jekhowsky . The Minor Planet Center honors his discoveries under the name " B. Jekhovsky " (with a v ). In modern English transcription , it would be written Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky.
After attending the University of Moscow , he worked at the Paris Observatory from 1912 . He later went to the Observatoire astronomique de Bouzareah when Algeria was a colony of France . There he became a recognized specialist in celestial mechanics .
Schechowski discovered numerous asteroids and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky was named after him.
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| SURNAME | Schechowski, Beniamin Pavlovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jekhowsky, Benjamin de; Jekhovsky, B .; Жеховский, Вениамин Павлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Polish-French astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Congress Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1953 |