Benjamin Jekhowsky
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| 953 Painleva 953 Painleva 953 Painleva is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 29 April 1921 by the Russian astronomer Benjamin Jekhowsky. The planet was named in honor of the French statesman and mathemetician Paul Painlevé.-External links:*... |
April 29, 1921 |
| 976 Benjamina 976 Benjamina 976 Benjamina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*... |
March 27, 1922 |
| 977 Philippa 977 Philippa 977 Philippa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*... |
April 6, 1922 |
| 988 Appella 988 Appella 988 Appella is a Themistian asteroid.-External links:*... |
November 10, 1922 |
| 1013 Tombecka 1013 Tombecka 1013 Tombecka is an asteroid. It was discovered by Benjamin Jekhowsky on January 17, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 PQ.... |
January 17, 1924 |
| 1017 Jacqueline 1017 Jacqueline 1017 Jacqueline is an asteroid. It was discovered by Benjamin Jekhowsky on February 4, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 QL. It was named after a Jacqueline Zadoc-Kahn, a disciple of Benjamin Jekhowsky.... |
February 4, 1924 |
| 1037 Davidweilla 1037 Davidweilla 1037 Davidweilla is an asteroid. It was discovered by Benjamin Jekhowsky on October 29, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 TF. It was named after David Weill.... |
October 29, 1924 |
| 1040 Klumpkea 1040 Klumpkea 1040 Klumpkea is an asteroid. It was discovered by Benjamin Jekhowsky on January 20, 1925. Its provisional designation was 1925 BD. It was named after Dorothea Klumpke Roberts.... |
January 20, 1925 |
| 1093 Freda 1093 Freda 1093 Freda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1925 LA. It is now named after Fred Prévost. The numerical designation indicates this was the 1093rd asteroid discovered.-External links:*... |
June 15, 1925 |
| 1181 Lilith 1181 Lilith The asteroid 1181 Lilith is a main belt asteroid discovered February 11, 1927 by Benjamin Jekhowsky. It was given the provisional designation 1927 CQ.... |
February 11, 1927 |
| 1328 Devota 1328 Devota 1328 Devota is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1925 by Jekhovsky, B. at Algiers.- External links :*... |
October 21, 1925 |
| 3881 Doumergua 3881 Doumergua 3881 Doumergua is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1925 by Jekhowsky, B. at Algiers.- External links :*... |
November 15, 1925 |
Benjamin Jekhowsky , died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes
Encausse-les-Thermes
Encausse-les-Thermes is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
(France)) was a Russian-French astronomer
Astronomer
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, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official. After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory
Paris Observatory
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beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory
Algiers Observatory
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(at the time, Algeria
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was a colony of France
France
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), where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics
Celestial mechanics
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. After 1934, he appears to have begun signing scientific articles as Benjamin de Jekhowsky. The Minor Planet Center
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credits his discoveries under the name "B. Jekhovsky" (with a v). In modern English transliteration, his name would be written as Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky. He discovered a number of asteroid
Asteroid
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s, made more than 190 scientific publications and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky
1606 Jekhovsky
1606 Jekhovsky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 14, 1950 by L. Boyer at Algiers.- External links :*...
is named after him.