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Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Russian:Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948,Rostov-on-Don) is anastronomer anddiscoverer of minor planets.[2]
In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) at Leningrad. Her research at theCrimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) then focused onastrometry andphotometry ofminor planets.[2][3] TheMinor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 130 minor planets, including theAmor asteroid5324 Lyapunov and theTrojan asteroid3063 Makhaon.[1] In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy fromOdesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.[4]
Lyudmila Karachkina has two daughters, Maria and Renata. The inner main-belt asteroid8019 Karachkina, discovered by German astronomersLutz D. Schmadel andFreimut Börngen atTautenburg on 14 October 1990, was named in her honor (M.P.C. 35489).[2][5] On 23 November 1999, the minor planet8089 Yukar was named after her husband, Yurij Vasil'evicht Karachkin (b. 1940), a physics teacher at CrAO's school.(M.P.C. 36946).[5][6]
| 2892 Filipenko | January 13, 1983 | MPC |
| 3063 Makhaon | August 4, 1983 | MPC |
| 3067 Akhmatova | October 14, 1982 | MPC[1] |
| 3068 Khanina | December 23, 1982 | MPC |
| 3215 Lapko | January 23, 1980 | MPC |
| 3286 Anatoliya | January 23, 1980 | MPC |
| 3345 Tarkovskij | December 23, 1982 | MPC |
| 3437 Kapitsa | October 20, 1982 | MPC |
| 3453 Dostoevsky | September 27, 1981 | MPC |
| 3469 Bulgakov | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 3508 Pasternak | February 21, 1980 | MPC |
| 3511 Tsvetaeva | October 14, 1982 | MPC[1] |
| 3516 Rusheva | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 3620 Platonov | September 7, 1981 | MPC |
| 3623 Chaplin | October 4, 1981 | MPC |
| 3624 Mironov | October 14, 1982 | MPC[1] |
| 3668 Ilfpetrov | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 3669 Vertinskij | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 3675 Kemstach | December 23, 1982 | MPC |
| 3750 Ilizarov | October 14, 1982 | MPC |
| 3772 Piaf | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 3946 Shor | March 5, 1983 | MPC |
| 3982 Kastelʹ | May 2, 1984 | MPC |
| 4017 Disneya | February 21, 1980 | MPC |
| 4071 Rostovdon | September 7, 1981 | MPC |
| 4075 Sviridov | October 14, 1982 | MPC |
| 4080 Galinskij | August 4, 1983 | MPC |
| 4258 Ryazanov | September 1, 1987 | MPC |
| 4475 Voitkevich | October 20, 1982 | MPC |
| 4483 Petofi | September 9, 1986 | MPC |
| 4556 Gumilyov | August 27, 1987 | MPC |
| 4625 Shchedrin | October 20, 1982 | MPC |
| 4626 Plisetskaya | December 23, 1984 | MPC |
| 4741 Leskov | November 10, 1985 | MPC |
| 4785 Petrov | December 17, 1984 | MPC |
| 4861 Nemirovskij | August 27, 1987 | MPC |
| 4928 Vermeer | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 4940 Polenov | August 18, 1986 | MPC |
| 4996 Veisberg | August 11, 1986 | MPC |
| 4997 Ksana | October 6, 1986 | MPC |
| 5021 Krylania | November 13, 1982 | MPC |
| 5093 Svirelia | October 14, 1982 | MPC |
| 5094 Seryozha | October 20, 1982 | MPC |
| 5199 Dortmund | September 7, 1981 | MPC |
| 5234 Sechenov | November 4, 1989 | MPC |
| 5247 Krylov | October 20, 1982 | MPC |
| 5316 Filatov | October 21, 1982 | MPC |
| 5324 Lyapunov | September 22, 1987 | MPC |
| 5421 Ulanova | October 14, 1982 | MPC[1] |
| 5422 Hodgkin | December 23, 1982 | MPC |