Asteroids named after people called Galina
馃懚 Galina as a baby name
Named in honor of Galina Richardovna Kastel使, well-known expert on the study of the motions of minor planets and comets, and a staff member of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy since 1962. She contributed much to the study of the 1886 close approach of periodic comet Brooks 2 to Jupiter. For more than a quarter of a century she has headed the ITA service on comets and fast-moving minor planets, maintaining contacts with the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams and supplying observers in the U.S.S.R. with the necessary information on orbits and ephemerides. She has also put much effort into the identification and orbit determination of minor planets observed in the course of the program at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, and the success of this program is in no small measure due to her help.Discovered 2 May 1984 by L. G. Karachkina, Nauchnyj
Named in honor of Galina Petrovna Vodop使yanova (b. 1939), a talented surgeon of the Russian Academy of Sciences Hospital, St. Petersburg, since 1978. Name suggested by N. A. Bokhan.Discovered 26 October 1976 by T. M. Smirnova, Nauchnyj
Galina O. Ryabova (b. 1955), of Tomsk State University, has generated mathematical models to simulate the evolution of meteoroid streams and for predicting their behavior near the earth.Discovered 22 May 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Galina Petrovna Turchina (b. 1937) is a Russian writer and dramatist, and the author of several books, plays and scripts. She collaborates with the Maly Theatre, founded a publishing house, Lazur (Azure), and is the editor-in-chief of three magazines for youth and children.Discovered 8 October 1969 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
Galina Alexeevna Inozemtseva (b. 1943), the head of Municipal Children's Diagnostic Center in Rostov-on-Don, has the title of Honorable Doctor of Russia. Particular emphasis in her work is placed on the development of theory and practice of diagnostics and children's medicine.Discovered 7 September 1981 by L. G. Karachkina, Nauchnyj
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