NIKOLAI STEPANOVICH CHERNYKH
'Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh' (, October 6 1931–May 26, 2004) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.
Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast. He specialized in astrometry and the dynamics of small bodies in the solar system and worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in the Ukraine from 1963.
He discovered a number of comets, including the periodic comets 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh and 101P/Chernykh. He also discovered a very large number of asteroids, including notably 2867 Šteins and the Trojan asteroid 2207 Antenor. He worked with his wife and colleague Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (Людмила Ивановна Черных). The asteroid 2325 Chernykh was named in their honour.
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★ 40 Years of Discovering Asteroids - An appreciation of the Work of N. S. Chernykh (in Russian)
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