Nikolai Chernykh
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Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh was a Russian-born Ukrainian-Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea. Biography and work Chernykh was born in the Russian city of Usman in Voronezh Oblast, in present-day Lipetsk Oblast. He specialized in astrometry and the dynamics of small bodies in the Solar System and worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory from 1963.
