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Comets
Czech & Slovak comet discoverers
Margita Kresáková
Margita Kresáková (1927 - 2001), born Vozárová
was a Slovakian astronomer. She discovered a comet 1954 f
at Skalnate Pleso Observatory. She studied comets and meteors.
Kresákova is an author and co-author of more than 60 scientific papers.
Margita Vozárová was born on May 21, 1927, in Červená Skala, Slovakia.
She studied astronomy at Comenius University in Bratislava and was graduated
in 1952. Then she began to work at Skalnate Pleso Observatory.
She joined other comet hunters there and became fifth Slovakian succesful
comet hunter in 1954, when she discovered a new comet 1954 f.
Here she met astronomer Lubor Kresák, whom she married later. When
Lubor Kresák left Skalnate Pleso and moved to Bratislava, she followed
him too. Both worked here at Astronomical Institute of Slovak Academy
of Sciences.
Margita and Lubor Kresak´s got one daughter Katarina. They belong to
a small group of astronomer couples, where both discovered an own comet.
Besides Kresak´s only two husband-wife couple achieved this: A. Mrkos
with Ľ. Pajdušáková and G. Shajn with P. Shajn.
Foto: fam. Kresák archive
Asteroid 4033 T-1
discovered by Cornelis J. van Houten a Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
on Palomar plates taken by T. Gehrels on March 26, 1971 during Palomar
survey was named to her honour
(9821) Gitakresáková.
(9821) Gitakresáková = 4033 T-1
Discovered 1971 Mar. 26 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar
Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels. Margita Kresáková (b. 1927) worked at the
Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She was a very
experienced meteor observer and comet hunter at Skalnaté Pleso Observatory. One
comet carries her maiden name, Vozárová.
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List of comets discovered by Margita Kresáková
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Comet |
Designation
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Date
of discovery
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Brightness
at discovery
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Previous
designation
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C/1954 O1 |
28. July 1954 |
9. magn. |
1954 d |
References:
L. Druga: Dejiny astronómie a Slovensko, SÚHH, 2006, s. 257
Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of minor planet names, Springer, 2003, s. 709-710
Orbit of Comet Vozárová, 1954 VIII,Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, vol. 18. nr. 3
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