Veniamin Pavlovich Zhekhovsky (St. Petersburg 1881 - Encausse-les-Thermes, France 1975 ) - Russian-French astronomer , born in St. Petersburg , in a large noble family, whose head, Pavel Vasilyevich Zhekhovsky (engineer of communications), served as an official for special orders on the Warsaw Railway (at that time Poland was part of the Russian Empire).
| Veniamin Pavlovich Zhekhovsky | |
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| Date of Birth | 1881 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | 1975 |
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| A country | Russia, France |
| Scientific field | Astronomy |
| Place of work | Paris Observatory , Algerian Observatory |
| Alma mater | Moscow University (1912) |
Biography
After graduating from Moscow University , from 1912 he worked at the Paris Observatory . After 1934 , scientific articles written by him were signed, like Benjamin de Jekhowsky . The Center for Minor Planets published its discoveries under the name: “B. Jekhovsky ". In modern English transliteration, his name would be spelled Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky. He later worked at the Algerian Observatory (at that time Algeria was a colony of France ), where he became known as a specialist in astronomical mechanics. He discovered many asteroids , published about 190 scientific papers. The asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky is named after him [1] .
Asteroid (976) Benjamin , discovered in 1922, is named after the son of an astronomer, and the asteroid (1017) Jacqueline , opened in 1924 is named after his student.
| Open Asteroids : 12 | |
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| (953) Painleva | April 29, 1921 |
| 976 benjamina | March 27, 1922 |
| 977 philippa | April 6, 1922 |
| 988 appella | November 10, 1922 |
| 1013 Tombecka | January 17, 1924 |
| 1017 Jacqueline | February 4, 1924 |
| 1037 Davidweilla | October 29, 1924 |
| 1040 Klumpkea | January 20, 1925 |
| 1093 Freda | June 15, 1925 |
| 1181 Lilith | February 11, 1927 |
| 1328 Devota | October 21, 1925 |
| 3881 Doumergua | November 15, 1925 |