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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. In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.

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 (M.P.C. 35489). 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.(M.P.C. 36946).

List of discovered minor planets

See also

• Tamara Smirnova, astronomer at ITA

References

1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
2. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(8019) Karachkina". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (8019) Karachkina. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 628. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_6794. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
3. Чи можна "купити" зірку? (in Ukrainian). day.kiev.ua. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
4. Библиотечный каталог российских и украинских диссертаций (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2009-10-22.
5. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
6. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(8089) Yukar". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (8089) Yukar. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 632. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_6835. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.

• 1948 births
• 20th-century Russian astronomers
• 21st-century Russian astronomers
• Discoverers of asteroids
• Discoveries by Lyudmila Karachkina
• Living people
• Scientists from Rostov-on-Don
• Soviet astronomers
• Ukrainian astronomers
• Women astronomers
• 20th-century women scientists
• 21st-century women scientists