Lyudmyla Karachkina

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Ljudmyla Heorhijiwna Karatschkina ( Ukrainian Людмила Георгіївна Карачкіна , Russian Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина ; *  3. September 1948 in Rostov-on-Don ) is a Ukrainian (until 1992: Soviet) astronomer .

Lyudmila Karachkina, daughter of a mathematician and scientist, works as a senior researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy of the Crimean Observatory . She discovered 131 asteroids, including the Amor asteroid (5324) Lyapunov and the Trojan (3063) Makhaon . The asteroid (8019) Karachkina was named in her honor.

Together with Lyudmyla Shuravlowa , with whom she worked at the Crimean Observatory , she named the asteroid (3067) Akhmatova after the writer Anna Akhmatova in 1982 . In the same year she also dedicated the name of a celestial body to the director Andrei Tarkovsky ( (3345) Tarkovskij ), the writer Michail Bulgakov ( (3469) Bulgakov ) and the writer Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( (3511) Tsvetaeva ). These naming were seen as a subtle but significant correction of the cultural history of Soviet Russia.

Karachkina has two daughters, the pianist Maria and Renata.

Individual evidence

  1. Lyudmyla Karachkina in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
  2. a b МУЗЫКА КАК СУДЬБА (Russian) in СОВЕТСКАЯ РОССИЯ "N 66 (12409) of June 21, 2003
  3. Staff ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers
  5. Verena Auffermann, Gunhild Kübler, Ursula März, Elke Schmitter: Passions: 99 authors of world literature , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, September 28, 2009, page 11. ISBN 978-3-570-01048-8