Benjamin Jekhowsky

Benjamin Jekhowsky (Russian: Вениамин Павлович Жеховский, born 1881 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes (France)) was a Russian–French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official.

Benjamin Jekhowsky
Asteroids discovered: 12[1]
953 PainlevaApril 29, 1921MPC
976 BenjaminaMarch 27, 1922MPC
977 PhilippaApril 6, 1922MPC
988 AppellaNovember 10, 1922MPC
1013 TombeckaJanuary 17, 1924MPC
1017 JacquelineFebruary 4, 1924MPC
1037 DavidweillaOctober 29, 1924MPC
1040 KlumpkeaJanuary 20, 1925MPC
1093 FredaJune 15, 1925MPC
1181 LilithFebruary 11, 1927MPC
1328 DevotaOctober 21, 1925MPC
3881 DoumerguaNovember 15, 1925MPC

After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory (at the time, Algeria was a colony of France), where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics. After 1934, he appears to have begun signing scientific articles as Benjamin de Jekhowsky. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name "B. Jekhovsky" (with a v). In modern English transliteration, his name would be written as Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky.

He discovered 12 numbered minor planets,[1] made more than 190 scientific publications and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky is named after him.[2]

References

  1. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(1606) Jekhovsky". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1606) Jekhovsky. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 127. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1607. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
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