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Lyudmila Karachkina

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Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Russian: Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lyudmila Karachkina is the 476th most popular astronomer (down from 404th in 2019), the 1,753rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,681st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lyudmila Karachkina ranks 476 out of 644. Before her are Hiroki Kosai, Carolyn Porco, Elia Millosevich, Minoru Honda, Pierre Puiseux, and Edward Pigott. After her are Dilhan Eryurt, David L. Rabinowitz, Richard Schorr, William Frederick Denning, Otto Heckmann, and Adam Riess.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Lyudmila Karachkina ranks 461. Before her are Pedro Artola, Nikola Šainović, Paquito D'Rivera, Vera Nikolić, Marc Okrand, and Jeffrey Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans. After her are Marleen Gorris, Ștefan Birtalan, Pekka Vasala, Giuseppe Impastato, Martin Suter, and Sgt. Slaughter.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lyudmila Karachkina ranks 1,753 out of 3,761. Before her are Igor Severyanin (1887), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), Artur Chilingarov (1939), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), and Maxim Kontsevich (1964). After her are David Keilin (1887), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Lila Tretikov (1978), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Mikhail Devyataev (1917), and Michael Lucas (1972).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Lyudmila Karachkina ranks 12. Before her are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), and Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854). After her are Pelageya Shajn (1894), Matvey Gusev (1826), Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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