Lyudmila Karachkina
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Ukrainian astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. Her research at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory then focused on astrometry and photometry of minor planets. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 130 minor planets, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon. In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
