Lyudmila Karachkina

Minor planets discovered: 130<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

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Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Template:Langx, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.<ref name="springer-Karachkina" />

In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) at Leningrad. Her research at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) then focused on astrometry and photometry of minor planets.<ref name="springer-Karachkina" /><ref name="kiev" /> 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.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.<ref name="lib.ua-ru.net" />

Lyudmila Karachkina has two daughters, Maria and Renata. The inner main-belt asteroid 8019 Karachkina, discovered by German astronomers Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg on 14 October 1990, was named in her honor (Template:Small).<ref name="springer-Karachkina" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" /> On 23 November 1999, the minor planet 8089 Yukar was named after her husband, Yurij Vasil'evicht Karachkin (b. 1940), a physics teacher at CrAO's school.(Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" /><ref name="springer-Yukar" />

List of discovered minor planets

2892 Filipenko	January 13, 1983	Template:MPC
3063 Makhaon	August 4, 1983	Template:MPC
3067 Akhmatova	October 14, 1982	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
3068 Khanina	December 23, 1982	Template:MPC
3215 Lapko	January 23, 1980	Template:MPC
3286 Anatoliya	January 23, 1980	Template:MPC
3345 Tarkovskij	December 23, 1982	Template:MPC
3437 Kapitsa	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
3453 Dostoevsky	September 27, 1981	Template:MPC
3469 Bulgakov	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
3508 Pasternak	February 21, 1980	Template:MPC
3511 Tsvetaeva	October 14, 1982	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
3516 Rusheva	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
3620 Platonov	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
3623 Chaplin	October 4, 1981	Template:MPC
3624 Mironov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
3668 Ilfpetrov	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
3669 Vertinskij	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
3675 Kemstach	December 23, 1982	Template:MPC
3750 Ilizarov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
3772 Piaf	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
3946 Shor	March 5, 1983	Template:MPC
3982 Kastelʹ	May 2, 1984	Template:MPC
4017 Disneya	February 21, 1980	Template:MPC
4071 Rostovdon	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
4075 Sviridov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
4080 Galinskij	August 4, 1983	Template:MPC
4258 Ryazanov	September 1, 1987	Template:MPC
4475 Voitkevich	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
4483 Petofi	September 9, 1986	Template:MPC
4556 Gumilyov	August 27, 1987	Template:MPC
4625 Shchedrin	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
4626 Plisetskaya	December 23, 1984	Template:MPC
4741 Leskov	November 10, 1985	Template:MPC
4785 Petrov	December 17, 1984	Template:MPC
4861 Nemirovskij	August 27, 1987	Template:MPC
4928 Vermeer	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
4940 Polenov	August 18, 1986	Template:MPC
4996 Veisberg	August 11, 1986	Template:MPC
4997 Ksana	October 6, 1986	Template:MPC
5021 Krylania	November 13, 1982	Template:MPC
5093 Svirelia	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
5094 Seryozha	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
5199 Dortmund	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
5234 Sechenov	November 4, 1989	Template:MPC
5247 Krylov	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
5316 Filatov	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
5324 Lyapunov	September 22, 1987	Template:MPC
5421 Ulanova	October 14, 1982	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
5422 Hodgkin	December 23, 1982	Template:MPC

5465 Chumakov	September 9, 1986	Template:MPC
5615 Iskander	August 4, 1983	Template:MPC
5666 Rabelais	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
5676 Voltaire	September 9, 1986	Template:MPC
5717 Damir	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
5759 Zoshchenko	January 22, 1980	Template:MPC
5808 Babelʹ	August 27, 1987	Template:MPC
5896 Narrenschiff	November 12, 1982	Template:MPC
5902 Talima	August 27, 1987	Template:MPC
5941 Valencia	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
5944 Utesov	May 2, 1984	Template:MPC
6032 Nobel	August 4, 1983	Template:MPC
6172 Prokofeana	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
6592 Goya	October 3, 1986	Template:MPC
6763 Kochiny	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
6766 Kharms	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
6767 Shirvindt	January 6, 1983	Template:MPC
6821 Ranevskaya	September 29, 1986	Template:MPC
7109 Heine	September 1, 1983	Template:MPC
7113 Ostapbender	September 29, 1986	Template:MPC
7223 Dolgorukij	October 14, 1982	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
7558 Yurlov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
7581 Yudovich	November 14, 1990	Template:MPC
7632 Stanislav	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
7633 Volodymyr	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
7741 Fedoseev	September 1, 1983	Template:MPC
7995 Khvorostovsky	August 4, 1983	Template:MPC
7996 Vedernikov	September 1, 1983	Template:MPC
8142 Zolotov	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
8332 Ivantsvetaev	October 14, 1982	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
8811 Waltherschmadel	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
8812 Kravtsov	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
8816 Gamow	December 17, 1984	Template:MPC
8822 Shuryanka	September 1, 1987	Template:MPC
9005 Sidorova	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
9006 Voytkevych	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
9532 Abramenko	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
9539 Prishvin	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
9540 Mikhalkov	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
9737 Dudarova	September 29, 1986	Template:MPC
9834 Kirsanov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
9927 Tyutchev	October 3, 1981	Template:MPC
10012 Tmutarakania	September 3, 1978	Template:MPC Template:Ref label
10031 Vladarnolda	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
10049 Vorovich	October 3, 1986	Template:MPC
10090 Sikorsky	October 13, 1990	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
10287 Smale	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
10324 Vladimirov	November 14, 1990	Template:MPC
10712 Malashchuk	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
10713 Limorenko	October 22, 1982	Template:MPC

10721 Tuterov	August 17, 1986	Template:MPC
11269 Knyr	August 26, 1987	Template:MPC
11796 Nirenberg	February 21, 1980	Template:MPC
12214 Miroshnikov	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
12220 Semenchur	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
12235 Imranakperov	September 9, 1986	Template:MPC
12686 Bezuglyj	October 3, 1986	Template:MPC
13488 Savanov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
13489 Dmitrienko	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
13492 Vitalijzakharov	December 27, 1984	Template:MPC
14814 Gurij	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
14818 Mindeli	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
14829 Povalyaeva	October 3, 1986	Template:MPC
15691 Maslov	October 14, 1982	Template:MPC
18334 Drozdov	September 2, 1987	Template:MPC
19119 Dimpna	September 27, 1981	Template:MPC
19120 Doronina	August 6, 1983	Template:MPC
19127 Olegefremov	August 26, 1987	Template:MPC
19952 Ashkinazi	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
19994 Tresini	October 13, 1990	Template:MPCTemplate:Ref label
24639 Mukhametdinov	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
24641 Enver	September 1, 1983	Template:MPC
26087 Zhuravleva	October 21, 1982	Template:MPC
29122 Vasadze	December 24, 1982	Template:MPC
29125 Kyivphysfak	December 17, 1984	Template:MPC
32770 Starchik	December 23, 1984	Template:MPC
42478 Inozemtseva	September 7, 1981	Template:MPC
43752 Maryosipova	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
65658 Gurnikovskaya	October 20, 1982	Template:MPC
69261 Philaret	December 23, 1982	Template:MPC
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See also

• Tamara Smirnova, astronomer at ITA