Jana Tichá is a Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

. 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

Klet Observatory

Kleť Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. It is situated in South Bohemia, south of the summit of Mount Kleť, near the town of České Budějovice...

. She specializes in discoveries of asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s and comet

Comet

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...

s especially Near-Earth object

Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth. All NEOs have a perihelion distance less than 1.3 AU. They include a few thousand near-Earth asteroids , near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to...

s (NEOs). She is the chair of the IAU

International Astronomical Union

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 Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), which is responsible for approving names of asteroids. She works together with her husband Miloš Tichý

Miloš Tichý

Miloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer. He is married to Jana Tichá.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He works together with his wife at Kleť Observatory. The asteroid 3337 Miloš is named after him....

 at Kleť.

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.

The asteroid 5757 Tichá

5757 Tichá

5757 Tichá is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1838.0559372 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 6, 1967. It is named after Czech astronomer Jana Tichá.-References:...

 is named in her honour and 8307 Peltan

8307 Peltan

8307 Peltan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1995 by J. Ticha at Klet.- External links :*...

 is named after her family.

Asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s discovered: 54

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| 7493 Hirzo

7493 Hirzo

7493 Hirzo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 1995 by Ticha, J. at Klet.- External links :*...

 || October 24, 1995
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| 7608 Telegramia

7608 Telegramia

7608 Telegramia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1995 by J. Ticha at Klet.- External links :*...

 || October 22, 1995
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| 8307 Peltan

8307 Peltan

8307 Peltan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1995 by J. Ticha at Klet.- External links :*...

 || March 5, 1995
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| 8572 Nijo

8572 Nijo

8572 Nijo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 19, 1996 by Klet at Klet.- External links :*...

  || October 19, 1996
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| 10234 Sixtygarden

10234 Sixtygarden

10234 Sixtygarden is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 27, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet. It is named after the address of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, home of the Minor Planet Center and the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams.- External links :*...

  || December 27, 1997
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| 10403 Marcelgrün

10403 Marcelgrün

10403 Marcelgrün is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1227.1100934 days .The asteroid was discovered on November 22, 1997....

  || November 22, 1997
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| 10872 Vaculík

10872 Vaculík

10872 Vaculík is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1479.6123596 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 12, 1996....

  || October 12, 1996
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| 11105 Puchnarová

11105 Puchnarová

11105 Puchnarová is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1633.8260817 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 24, 1995....

 || October 24, 1995
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| 11128 Ostravia

11128 Ostravia

11128 Ostravia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1996 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || November 3, 1996
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| 11141 Jindrawalter

11141 Jindrawalter

11141 Jindrawalter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || January 12, 1997
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| 11144 Radiocommunicata

11144 Radiocommunicata

11144 Radiocommunicata is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || February 2, 1997
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| 11338 Schiele

11338 Schiele

11338 Schiele is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1996 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || October 13, 1996
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| 12833 Kamenný Újezd

12833 Kamenný Újezd

12833 Kamenný Újezd is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1136.5725103 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 2, 1997....

  || February 2, 1997
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| 13229 Echion

13229 Echion

13229 Echion is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on November 2, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || November 2, 1997
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| 13792 Kuščynskyj

13792 Kušcynskyj

13792 Kuščynskyj is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2062.9937432 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 7, 1998....

  || November 7, 1998
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| 14068 Hauserová

14068 Hauserová

14068 Hauserová is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1546.1808795 days .The asteroid was discovered on April 21, 1996....

  || April 21, 1996
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| 15399 Hudec

15399 Hudec

15399 Hudec is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || November 2, 1997
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| 16083 Jorvik

16083 Jorvik

16083 Jorvik is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || October 12, 1999
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| 16794 Cucullia

16794 Cucullia

16794 Cucullia is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || February 2, 1997
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| 18841 Hruška

18841 Hruška

18841 Hruška is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1520.2286694 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 6, 1999....

  || September 6, 1999
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| 19384 Winton

19384 Winton

19384 Winton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet Observatory. It is named after Nicholas Winton - a Briton that organized a rescue mission to save 669 of mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children from their horrific fate in Nazi concentration camps...

  || February 6, 1998
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| 20164 Janzajíc

20164 Janzajíc

20164 Janzajíc is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1228.3974787 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 9, 1996....

  || November 9, 1996
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| 21270 Otokar

21270 Otokar

21270 Otokar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 19, 1996 by Jana Tichá and Miloš Tichý at Kleť Observatory.- External links :*...

  || July 19, 1996
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| 21873 Jindřichůvhradec

21873 Jindrichuvhradec

21873 Jindřichůvhradec is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2040.8659598 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 29, 1999....

  || October 29, 1999
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| 22442 Blaha

22442 Blaha

22442 Blaha is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1996 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || October 14, 1996
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| 25258 Nathaniel

25258 Nathaniel

25258 Nathaniel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1998 by M. Tichy and J. Ticha at Klet.- External links :*...

  || November 7, 1998
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| 26314 Škvorecký

26314 Škvorecký

26314 Škvorecký is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1474.3181156 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 16, 1998....

  || October 16, 1998
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| 26340 Evamarková

26340 Evamarková

26340 Evamarková is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1329.5449673 days .The asteroid was discovered on December 13, 1998....

  || December 13, 1998
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| 26969 Biver

26969 Biver

26969 Biver is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1997 by M. Tichy and J. Ticha at Klet.- External links :*...

  || September 20, 1997
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| 27087 Tillmannmohr

27087 Tillmannmohr

27087 Tillmannmohr is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || October 24, 1998
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| 28220 York

28220 York

28220 York is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 28, 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet Observatory.- External links :*...

  || December 28, 1998
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| 29477 Zdíkšíma

29477 Zdíkšíma

29477 Zdíkšíma is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1463.7470713 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 31, 1997....

  || October 31, 1997
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| 29738 Ivobudil

29738 Ivobudil

29738 Ivobudil is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 23, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || January 23, 1999
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| (31232) 1998 CF  || February 1, 1998
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| 35446 Stáňa

35446 Stána

35446 Stáňa is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1318.7593815 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 6, 1998....

  || February 6, 1998
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| 35977 Lexington

35977 Lexington

35977 Lexington is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 3, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || July 3, 1999
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| 35978 Arlington

35978 Arlington

35978 Arlington is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 5, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || July 5, 1999
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| || August 14, 1999
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| 40206 Lhenice

40206 Lhenice

40206 Lhenice is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || September 26, 1998
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| 44597 Thoreau

44597 Thoreau

44597 Thoreau is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || August 6, 1999
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| 46692 Taormina

46692 Taormina

46692 Taormina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1997 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || February 2, 1997
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| 47144 Faulkes

47144 Faulkes

47144 Faulkes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 7, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || August 7, 1999
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| 47294 Blanský les

47294 Blanský les

47294 Blanský les is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1272.9694069 days .The asteroid was discovered on November 28, 1999.-References:...

  || November 28, 1999
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| 48794 Stolzová

48794 Stolzová

48794 Stolzová is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1768.0794473 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 5, 1997....

  || October 5, 1997
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| 50413 Petrginz

50413 Petrginz

50413 Petrginz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 27, 2000, by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet. It is named after Holocaust victim Petr Ginz.- External links :*...

  || February 27, 2000
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| || January 30, 1998
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| 53093 La Orotava

53093 La Orotava

53093 La Orotava is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 28, 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || December 28, 1998
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| 55082 Xlendi

55082 Xlendi

55082 Xlendi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 25, 2001 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet Observatory.- External links :*...

  || August 25, 2001
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| 56329 Tarxien

56329 Tarxien

56329 Tarxien is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 28, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...

  || November 28, 1999
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| (85573) 1998 CE  || February 1, 1998
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| (85574) 1998 CG  || February 1, 1998
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| || January 30, 1998
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   Miloš Tichý
   Miloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer. He is married to Jana Tichá.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He works together with his wife at Kleť Observatory. The asteroid 3337 Miloš is named after him....
   
   

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External links

• Staff webpage on the web of the Kleť observatory