Name Tamara Smirnova Died 2001 | Role Astronomer | |
Discovered 7369 Gavrilin, 7856 Viktorbykov, 2575 Bulgaria Similar People Lyudmila Chernykh, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Viktor Patsayev, Pyotr Nesterov | ||
Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (Russian: Tamára Miháilovna Smirnóva; 1935–2001) was a Russian astronomer.
From 1966 to 1988 she was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. She co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. She has also discovered over 100 asteroids. The asteroid 5540 Smirnova was named in her honor.
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