Jana Tichá

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Jana Tichá (born 1965 in České Budějovice) is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory.

She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially near-Earth objects (NEOs). The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 104 numbered minor planets during 1995–2003.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> She is the chair of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), which is responsible for approving names of asteroids. She works together with her husband Miloš Tichý at Kleť.<ref name="springer" />

In her country she is also well known for her popularization activities. She is major contributor to the Czech web servers about asteroids and comets.

On 3 May 1996 the asteroid 5757 Tichá was named in her honour (Template:Small),<ref name="springer" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" /> while she named her discovery, the main-belt asteroid 8307 Peltan, after several members of her family.<ref name="springer-Peltan" />

List of discovered minor planets

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7441 Láska	30 July 1995	Template:Small Template:Ref label
7493 Hirzo	24 October 1995	Template:Small
7608 Telegramia	22 October 1995	Template:Small
8307 Peltan	5 March 1995	Template:Small
8572 Nijo	19 October 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
10234 Sixtygarden	27 December 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
10403 Marcelgrün	22 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
10872 Vaculík	12 October 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
11105 Puchnarová	24 October 1995	Template:Small
11128 Ostravia	3 November 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
11141 Jindrawalter	12 January 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
11144 Radiocommunicata	2 February 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
11338 Schiele	13 October 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
12010 Kovářov	18 October 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
12833 Kamenný Újezd	2 February 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
13229 Echion	2 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
13792 Kuščynskyj	7 November 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
14068 Hauserová	21 April 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
14541 Sacrobosco	20 September 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
14948 Bartuška	16 January 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label

15399 Hudec	2 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
16083 Jorvik	12 October 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
16709 Auratian	29 September 1995	Template:Small
16742 Zink	21 July 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
16794 Cucullia	2 February 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
17167 Olgarozanova	4 July 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
18456 Mišík	8 March 1995	Template:Small Template:Ref label
18841 Hruška	6 September 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
19384 Winton	6 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
20164 Janzajíc	9 November 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
21873 Jindřichůvhradec	29 October 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
21270 Otokar	19 July 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
22442 Blaha	14 October 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
22450 Nové Hrady	3 November 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
25258 Nathaniel	7 November 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
26314 Škvorecký	16 October 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
26340 Evamarková	13 December 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
26969 Biver	20 September 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
27087 Tillmannmohr	24 October 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
28220 York	28 December 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label

29477 Zdíkšíma	31 October 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
29738 Ivobudil	23 January 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
31232 Slavonice	1 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
31238 Kroměříž	21 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
33061 Václavmorava	2 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
35233 Krčín	26 May 1995	Template:Small Template:Ref label
35269 Idefix	21 August 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
35446 Stáňa	6 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
35977 Lexington	3 July 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
35978 Arlington	5 July 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
36035 Petrvok	6 August 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
37699 Santini-Aichl	13 January 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
37736 Jandl	15 November 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	14 August 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
40206 Lhenice	26 September 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
44530 Horáková	25 December 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
44597 Thoreau	6 August 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
46692 Taormina	2 February 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
47144 Faulkes	7 August 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
47294 Blanský les	28 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label

48794 Stolzová	5 October 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
49698 Váchal	1 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
50413 Petrginz	27 February 2000	Template:Small Template:Ref label
52665 Brianmay	30 January 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
53093 La Orotava	28 December 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
55082 Xlendi	25 August 2001	Template:Small Template:Ref label
56329 Tarxien	28 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
56422 Mnajdra	2 April 2000	Template:Small Template:Ref label
58607 Wenzel	19 October 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
58664 IYAMMIX	21 December 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
58682 Alenašolcová	10 January 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
59001 Senftenberg	26 September 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
59797 Píšala	7 August 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
59830 Reynek	10 September 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
61208 Stonařov	30 July 2000	Template:Small Template:Ref label
66934 Kálalová	26 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
69469 Krumbenowe	16 November 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
70679 Urzidil	30 October 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
70936 Kámen	28 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
74024 Hrabě	23 April 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label

74370 Kolářjan	9 December 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
75223 Wupatki	28 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
76628 Kozí Hrádek	22 April 2000	Template:Small Template:Ref label
79347 Medlov	4 December 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
79354 Brundibár	16 January 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
85389 Rosenauer	22 August 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
85516 Vaclík	2 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	1 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
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87097 Lomaki	7 June 2000	Template:Small Template:Ref label
91007 Ianfleming	30 January 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
100735 Alpomořanská	19 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
101721 Emanuelfritsch	13 March 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
118214 Agnesediboemia	12 January 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
129595 Vand	2 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
133077 Jirsík	4 May 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
136666 Seidel	17 September 1995	Template:Small Template:Ref label
152750 Brloh	21 January 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
171588 Náprstek	26 November 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
192439 Cílek	1 November 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label

Co-discovery made with: Template:Note label M. Tichý
Template:Mp	22 March 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	17 September 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	25 February 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	25 September 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	23 March 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	23 March 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	4 May 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	25 September 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	4 May 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	23 March 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
Template:Mp	22 August 2003	Template:Small Template:Ref label
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References

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Template:In lang Zdeněk Suchan, Cena Zdeňka Kvíze za rok 2004, in Kosmické rozhledy vol. 6/2004, page 38

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External links

Staff webpage on the web of the Kleť observatory

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