Dmitrij F. Lune | |
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Лупішко Дмитро Федорович | |
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| Born | (1942-02-15)15 February 1942 |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Kharkiv Observatory |
| Academic advisors | Nikolai P. Barabashov |
| Notable students | Irina Belskaya Vasilij G. Shevchenko Yurij N. Krugly |
Dmitrij F. Lupishko (born 1942) is a Ukrainian astronomer, founder of the Kharkivasteroid science school, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets atKharkiv Observatory (1989-2012),[1] recipient of theState Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010).[2]
Dmitrij Lupishko was born on February 15, 1942, in the village of Koshary,Sumy Oblast. In 1969, he graduated from the School of Physics ofKharkiv State University and entered graduate school under the guidance of academicianNikolai P. Barabashov, but in 1971 Barabashov died. In 1975, Dmitry Lupishko defended his PhD thesis "Absolute integral and surface photometry ofMars in the opposition of 1971". In 1999 he defended hisSc.D. dissertation "Photometry andpolarimetry ofasteroids: results of observations and data analysis".[3] From 1993 to 2006, he was the head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets at theInstitute of astronomy.[4]
Having started his scientific career with the research ofMars, he eventually began to study asteroids. In 1984, he created and headed the asteroids working group at theAcademy of Sciences of the USSR. In the following years, Dmitrij Lupishko organized and held four meetings of this working group, as well as two all-USSR seminars. Later, he organized international workshops "Polarimetry of Comets and Asteroids" (1997) and "Photometry and Polarimetry of Asteroids" (2003) at Kharkiv Observatory.
In asteroid physics, Dmitrij Lupishko studied the laws of light scattering by asteroid surfaces and discovered several new polarization effects. He showed that the surfaces OfM-type asteroids are not purely metallic, but contain a significant part ofsilicates. He improved the values of asteroid diameters andalbedos obtained by the infrared space telescopeIRAS. Dmitrij Lupishko also created the polarimetric asteroid database, which is now a part of thePlanetary Data System.[3]
