Zdenka Vávrová

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> Zdenka Vávrová - Czech and Slovak comet discoverers

Zdenka Vávrová (* 1945) is a Czech astronomer. She worked at Klet Observatory for 20 years. She discovered more than hundred minor planets and co-discovered 1 short periodic comet.

She worked at Klet Observatory as assistant of Antonín Mrkos during years 1975 - 1995. She worked on astrometry of asteroids and comets. Discoveries of 115 minor planets, with permanent number were credited to Zdenka Vávrová. One of her discoveries - asteroid 1983 JG - turned out to be a periodic comet. It is known as a 134P/Kowal-Vávrová.

Zdenka Vávrová found an asteroid 1980 SM on 1980 Sep. 29, which received permanent number in November 1997. In April 2014 this asteroid was named as (7984) Marius in honor of German astronomer Simon Marius, the independent discoverer of four biggest Jovian moons, but he publicly informed about it only few years later than Galileo Galilei.

Entrance to the world od asteroids and comets at Kleť

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Intruments used for minor planets and comet search at Kleť Observatory

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Asteroid 3364 discovered by Antonín Mrkos on April 5, 1984 at Kleť Observatory was named to her honour (3364) Zdenka.

(3364) Zdenka = 1984 GF

Named in honour of Zdenka Vávrová for her 20 devoted years in the atrometric program at Kleť.

List of comets discovered by Zdenka Vávrová

Comet	Designation	Date of discovery	Brightness at discovery	Previous designation
Kowal-Vávrová	134P	1983 May 14	16.5 magn.	1983 t

References: magazines Říše hvězd, Kozmos

[Antonín Bečvář] [Antonín Mrkos] [Ľudmila Pajdušáková] [Ľubor Kresák]
[Margita Kresáková] [Luboš Kohoutek] [Zdenka Vávrová] [Miloš Tichý] [Tomáš Vorobjov]

My discoveries total: 357

Apache Point (705): 4

Konkoly Obs (461): 184

Moorook Obs (D90): 1

Rodeo Obs (H11): 1

Sierra Stars Obs (G68): 1

iTelescope Obs (H06): 7

iTelescope Obs (Q62): 1

SkyMorph/NEAT (644): 155

FMO Spacewatch (691): 3

Efemeridy pre pozorovanie:

NEA - FMO Spacewatch

NEAT - single opposition

NEAT - multi opposition

objavy 2010

Konkoly Obs, Piszkéstető

SDSS - Apache Point

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