Asteroids named after people called Margit

(524638) Kaffkamargit

Margit Kaffka (1880–1918) was a poet and novelist, one of the most important female Hungarian authors. Her works dealt mostly with two main themes: the decline of the gentry class, and the problems faced by women in an era of major social changes. She died of influenza in the winter of 1918.Discovered 21 September 2003 by B. Sipőcz K. Sárneczky, Piszkesteto

(541587) Paparo

Margit Paparó (b. 1950) is a Hungarian astronomer and a pioneer of ground-based and space-born observations of pulsating variable stars in Hungary. Her main field of research is the study of multimode-pulsator and pulsating stars in binary systems. She was the discoverer of the SN 1976C.Discovered 1 October 2011 by K. Sárneczky, Piszkesteto

(635771) Prahacsmargit

Margit Prahács (1893–1974) was a Hungarian aesthete and critic. She was the first Hungarian professional female music historian and head of the library of the Academy of Music. Margit was the first woman to become a habilitated professor and her research on Franz Liszt is still cited today.Discovered 23 October 2012 by A. Király K. Sárneczky, Piszkesteto

(653564) Genersich

Margit Genersich (1878–1918) was a Hungarian ophthalmologist, the second woman doctor to graduate from the University of Budapest. During the last years of the First World War, she was the only doctor in her hospital who treated soldiers with eye injuries.Discovered 18 September 2003 by B. Sipőcz K. Sárneczky, Piszkesteto